As a result of two days of negotiations, Royal Dutch Airline KLM and AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) have come to an agreement which will allow ABC to fully re-establish its operations to Amsterdam Schiphol Airport (AMS), the Netherlands, as per its request.
Earlier ABC’s suffered imposition of slot restrictions at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, the Netherlands, which threatens freighter operators with a potential loss of up to 20 percent of their slots. The number of slots at Schiphol has been capped at 500,000 a year until 2020. Recent growth at the airport means it has reached this limit and has been forced to adopt the IATA 80:20 policy, which specifies that any airline which has not flown 80 percent of its scheduled slots loses its right to them.
The agreement follows slot restrictions at Schiphol, which threatened freighter operators with a potential loss of up to 20 percent of their slots.
ABC said that it expects to resume its operations at the airport in the weeks to come, and that both airlines will continue cooperation in order to avoid such situations in the future.
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