I've given it more thought, and taken a more balanced opinion. I think this isn't as bad for KLM/Delta as it was for some other airlines. But it's complicated.

I do have a question, if KLM has hundreds of flights per day, and has to reduce movements by X number per day, does anything say it must be a widebody, or any required mix of aircraft at all? Or can they just reduce X number of movements of their smallest aircraft?

Also, reducing 3.1% of a large number of flights is easy mathematically. What about an airline that only has 10 movements per day at AMS? Does the new rules require them to round that .31 flights per day a certain way? Common sense says that airline still gets to operate 10 flights per day, but I suspect they might be required to reduce to 9?

Anyone know the answers?