From
Radio Netherlands Worldwide:
For many people it’s a prime example of how a small country can manage to compete with the big guys: the Netherlands’ main international airport, Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. But a majority in the Dutch parliament thinks the great reputation of this international ‘hub’ is being undermined as the airport tries to woo budgets carriers such as EasyJet and Ryanair. Parliament wants the airport to drop its plans to charge these cheaper airlines lower landing fees, whilst raising the charges for transit passengers, those for whom the airport is not the final destination but a place to change planes. The argument for this demand is that it is the well-established airlines, including ‘home’ company KLM, which depend most on this transit traffic. […]
A parliamentary majority believes the airport itself is now undermining its own position by giving preferential treatment to cut-price carriers and not to the bigger airlines with their worldwide networks. Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf quoted Christian Democrat MP Sander de Rouwe saying, "Schiphol has launched an airline war with the major companies […] This strikes at the very heart of the carefully established hub operation.”