Originally Posted by
nene
What you are missing is the activists don't want "low fare" airlines at all anymore in Europe. They want tourism constrained and prices to double if possible. They want the peasants to go by train and leave the flying to the fewer well heeled among them.
You're adorable. This is KLM/Delta protecting their cash cow, using noise/environment as the excuse.
JB had to operate it's small daily schedule out of two different TERMINALS in ATL. Two gates, each in a different TERMINAL in ATL because of Delta's influence over the ATL airport authority. To this day JB has two gates, at opposite ends of the same terminal, finally. Dominant airlines have significant control over airport authorities.
Schipol airport authority is using noise/environment as an excuse to make flight cuts that predominantly harm carriers other than KLM/Delta. While KLM/Delta have to reduce flights by 3.1%, their competitors have to reduce their flights by 3.1-100%. KLM/Delta have the lions share of the flights, they can take a trim, and upgauge. And frankly, this whole gambit is artificially restricting capacity, which means fares/margins will get pushed up, and the primary beneficiaries of that are the airlines that still get to operate a very large network there.