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Winter weather has crippled operations at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS) as delays and cancellations have now entered their fourth consecutive day with today looking to continue to worsen. The airport has already cancelled more than 400 flights today (January 5th) with this number expected to rise as the day progresses. Other European airports are seeing delays and some cancellations, but nothing on the scale of what is happening at the Dutch airport.
The situation at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS) does not seem to be getting better for the thousands of passengers who have had flights cancelled. As the operational meltdown is now in its fourth day, KLM and other airlines are struggling to accommodate passengers on other flights or with hotel rooms. The number of cancelled flights has been pretty bleak each day over the weekend with:
- 385 or 31% of flights cancelled on Saturday, January 3rd
- 568 or 43% of flights cancelled on Sunday, January 4th
- 441 (so far) or 34% of flights cancelled today, January 5th
Altogether, around 1,400 flights have been cancelled so far.
Those aircraft that manage to land are facing lengthy taxi times while they wait for instructions and gates. A Delta Air Lines and a KLM flight landed an hour ago and are still taxiing while a Transavia flight left the gate 2.5 hours ago and is still waiting to takeoff. The average delay for flights that are still operating is around two hours.
Passengers have been left without luggage and forced to sleep at the airport as no hotel rooms are available. The situation is tense and trains have even stopped running in and out of Amsterdam’s Central Station.
Anthony’s Take: What a mess at KLM’s hub and one of Europe’s largest airports. It’s going to take days to dig out and get all of the impacted passengers where they need to go.
(Featured Image Credit: Miguel Angel Sanz via Unsplash.)
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