JetBlue has requested the U.S. Department of Transportation to ban Dutch flag provider KLM from John F. Kennedy International Airport over a controversial flight cap within the Netherlands. The Dutch authorities is shifting to cap the variety of flights subsequent yr at Amsterdam-Schiphol, Europe’s busiest airport by plane actions. JetBlue claims the flight cap would violate the US-EU Air Transport Agreement and the ban can be a “proportional countermeasure.”
Several airways, together with KLM and Delta, have opposed the plan to restrict Schiphol to solely 452,500 flights per yr. The Dutch authorities has additionally moved to ban personal jets and late-night flights in an effort to scale back carbon emissions and noise air pollution, in accordance with Simple Flying.
JetBlue remains to be comparatively new to Amsterdam-Schiphol, launching its first route there simply August of this yr. The New York-based provider believes that discovering further slots at Schiphol will turn out to be virtually not possible. JetBlue launched an announcement to Reuters, which reads:
“Carriers with historics at Schiphol are facing a 4% reduction in capacity. New entrants such as JetBlue are facing a completely closed market and 100% expulsion from the market. This is not a fair or proportional outcome despite Dutch government assurances otherwise.”
JetBlue is at the moment within the midst of a large growth in an try to problem America’s three established main carriers. The airline remains to be trying to full a purchase order of Spirit Airlines, which can also be below scrutiny from the U.S. authorities. Being pushed out at Schiphol can be a large setback. It is very unlikely that the U.S. DOT would contemplate outright banning KLM from JFK as a response.
Source: jalopnik.com