Very aviation-critical cabinet fell

The Rutte IV cupboard was not extremely popular within the aviation sector. Originally of this yr, for instance, the federal government tripled the flight tax to 26 euros, which made flying much more costly and a few vacationers diverted to airports simply throughout the border, resembling Weeze and Düsseldorf.

This authorities additionally launched the plan to scale back Schiphol from 500,000 to 440,000 flights, with an preliminary discount to 460,000 flights as an intermediate step till the EU Balanced Strategy process is accomplished. Though the courtroom dominated on Friday that the shrinkage to ‘460’ is permitted, the autumn of the cupboard has made the shrinkage very unsure.

It’ll in all probability now be as much as the following cupboard to resolve on this. The following elections, that are anticipated to happen within the autumn, will due to this fact even be about the way forward for the Dutch aviation sector.