Final 12 months there have been nonetheless main issues at Schiphol in the course of the Might holidays, partly as a result of there have been too few safety guards. That led to lengthy strains and other people lacking their flights. Finally, Schiphol determined to restrict the variety of departing vacationers from the summer time in an effort to higher course of the individuals who might fly.
In latest months, Schiphol has finished so much to recruit new safety guards. However the turnover fee at safety was additionally elevated in good methods, in order that vacationers might be checked extra rapidly.
Nevertheless, it was not but attainable to run fully with out restrictions. Within the morning hours, when many vacation flights depart, a restrict was nonetheless set on the variety of vacationers.
That is additionally mirrored within the numbers. In 2019, the final 12 months earlier than the corona pandemic, 1.2 million vacationers departed from Schiphol. There have been then a median of 705 flights per day. This 12 months there have been a median of 621. However throughout final 12 months’s drawback interval, there have been clearly fewer with a median of 594 flights per day.
