Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport is a huge success as an airport, but not so good as a neighbor according to number of members of the Dutch Parliament, who are calling for restrictions or bans on night flights because of noise.
Schiphol, one of Europe’s top fields with many passengers transferring there from one flight to another as well as serving as a huge cargo base, is limited by law for how many flights per year it can handle, and it has regularly been hitting that cap. Any shift of flights from night to day might make the daytime schedule impossibly complicated.
Some of them point to the night-time bans at London Heathrow, Paris Charles de Gaulle and Frankfurt, but all three of those are in cities served by alternate airports, allowing more distribution of the traffic. Efforts by Dutch aviation authorities to shift traffic to a new airport at Lelyveld, a former air force base that would be redeveloped as a passenger airport have met with stiff opposition as well.
