The transfer instantly obtained plaudits from environmentalists however not from its greatest buyer – KLM nationwide airways.

With its plans, the airport will part out all visitors between midnight and 5 am, ban non-public jets and the nosiest planes and abandon a challenge for a further runway.

“We have thought about growth but too little about its impact for too long. We need to be sustainable for our employees, the local environment and the world,” stated Ruud Sondag, CEO of the Schiphol Group. “The only way forward is to become quieter and cleaner more rapidly. We have thought about growth but too little about its impact for too long. We need to be sustainable,” Sondag stated.

The plans ought to kick in no later that the 2025-2026 season.

The environmental group Greenpeace welcomed the transfer. “Finally, they seem to turn the tide,” stated its air transport skilled Maarten de Zeeuw, particularly lauding the ban on non-public jets.

“We are happy that Schiphol is listening,” De Zeeuw stated. The group stated that even when different European airports had nighttime flying limits, Schiphol could be the primary main one on the continent to ban polluting non-public planes.

KLM was much less enthusiastic, complaining that it wasn’t extra intently consulted over the choice. “We are astonished that Schiphol is unilaterally putting forward proposals that will have far-reaching consequences for airlines, without involving the industry parties in this process,” it stated in a press release.

Last summer time, the Dutch authorities already determined to chop the utmost variety of flights allowed every year in an try to cut back noise and air air pollution.

The resolution — anticipated to take impact late within the yr — would lower the variety of flights allowed from round 500,000 to 440,000.

Schiphol, on the outskirts of Amsterdam, has been rising for years and has turn into one of many busiest European hubs and a major driver of financial development within the Netherlands.

But the federal government additionally desires to chop emissions of carbon and different pollution akin to nitrogen oxide, forcing the cutting down of flights.