On the nationwide airport, it’s not nearly logistics, but additionally about stakeholders and main clients, akin to TUI and the KLM Group. These are demanding and typically tough firms that you want to know by means of and thru and take note of. After which there may be the Board of Airline Representatives Within the Netherlands (BARIN), which steadily seeks consideration and thus places further stress on Schiphol’s administration from the general public aspect of the spectrum.
Being finally answerable for Schiphol is and has additionally been a job with a excessive threat of failure in recent times. A place which you can greatest take up when you’re on the finish of your profession and do not have a lot to lose anymore or as an interim supervisor who can handle quickly and when the shock impact has worn off, he’s already on his option to the following job. By the way, I understood that Dick Benschop will stay on till January 1, 2023. That looks like two tough months to me.
The brand new CEO Sondag will get his job carried out along with monetary director Robert Carsouw and operational director Hanne Buis. Each served below Benschop and are due to this fact partly answerable for the scenario that has arisen and which have severely affected the picture of the Dutch mainport. Severe events assume that after Sondag, Buis will grow to be the everlasting high girl. Is that the correct reward for the distress that had arisen for which she was partly accountable as operational director?
Sondag’s mission is evident: ensure that the issues with employees, suppliers, unions and clients are solved and make Schiphol a number one airport once more because it was prior to now. Moreover, cut back the variety of flights per yr to 440,000. One thing that may simply be achieved by providing Ryanair, Easyjet and Vueling an alternate that matches their low price construction.
Ruud Sondag has been appointed till the top of August 2023. His successor could then have a connection to The Hague and the shareholder municipalities of Amsterdam and Rotterdam. As soon as Schiphol is functioning correctly once more and the claims from the airways for compensation have been settled, these shareholders would additionally prefer to reap the annual dividend.
My private recommendation as Sondag’s successor is the director Mel Kroon, member of the supervisory board of Air Visitors Management the Netherlands (LVNL). Kroon has a background in Aerospace Engineering and is nicely versed within the fields of aviation organisations, mobility and power. He labored for Fokker and achieved success and appreciation with grid operator TenneT. The latter firm operates as a public firm in a industrial market, similar to Schiphol.
Whoever goes to take it up, the query stays whether or not Schiphol will ever be all proper once more, primarily because of the shortages within the labor market, for which there’s as but no answer. The inhabitants is growing older, whereas there’s a concern amongst some political events to welcome younger overseas staff as a way to steadiness the labor market.
What the brand new administration should in any case bear in mind are individuals with plenty of publicity who should not afraid of character assassination.
Rob Somsen
Director Reismedia Group
