{"id":5343,"date":"2026-04-23T14:45:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T14:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/5343\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T14:45:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T14:45:06","slug":"amsterdam-airport-offers-airline-discounts-over-fuel-costs-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/5343\/","title":{"rendered":"Amsterdam airport offers airline discounts over fuel costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Hague: Amsterdam&#8217;s Schiphol Airport said Thursday it would offer airlines a 10-percent discount on airport charges due to the high price of jet fuel caused by the current Middle East geopolitical situation.<\/p>\n<p>The discount is a temporary measure that applies to daytime flights only from April 27, 2026 through March 31, 2027, announced the airport, Europe&#8217;s fourth-busiest hub.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The airport is taking this measure because airlines&#8217; costs have risen unexpectedly and sharply as a result of high kerosene prices,&#8221; Schiphol said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Especially in the current geopolitical situation, it is important to keep the Netherlands connected to the rest of the world and to ensure that essential flights can continue to operate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dutch legacy carrier KLM announced last week it was scrapping nearly one percent of its short-haul flights that had become unprofitable due to high fuel charges.<\/p>\n<p>Airlines have trimmed routes and costs as fuel bills explode and wary passengers think twice about travel plans, a situation that could persist even if a fragile truce holds in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>Schiphol admitted there would be a &#8220;temporary negative effect&#8221; on its financial results, without disclosing an exact figure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hague: Amsterdam&#8217;s Schiphol Airport said Thursday it would offer airlines a 10-percent discount on airport charges due&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[23,5021,5020],"class_list":{"0":"post-5343","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-amsterdam","8":"tag-amsterdam","9":"tag-qatar","10":"tag-the-peninsula"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}