easyJet files complaint against Amsterdam airport
13.08.08
easyJet said today that it has filed a complaint with Dutch competition authority NMa against Dutch airport operator Schiphol Amsterdam for increasing passenger charges. The budget airline said in a statement: ‘Schiphol is discriminating by charging passengers that depart from the Netherlands twice as much as transfer passengers.'
Schiphol will increase passenger and security charges by 36 percent in total to €30.93 by November for non-transfer passengers, while the charges rise 40 percent to €15.43 for transfer passengers. easyJet say that the airport is violating Dutch law as charges were discriminatory, not related to costs, and not transparent.
The budget airline said that Schiphol would become Europe's most expensive airport with these rises, and that if the NMa will not investigate easyJet's complaint, the airline will go to the European Commission.
However, a spokeswoman for Schiphol said the system that differentiates between charges for transfer passengers and other passengers was approved by the NMa, and if airlines had complaints about charges, they should address them to the NMa. She added: ‘Passenger service charges are going up mostly due to inflation, while costs for security continue to rise.'
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