British budget airline EasyJet says that Schiphol Airport is much too expensive, and has announced that it is opening up a number of new destinations which it hopes will attract Dutch passengers to airports in Brussels, Dusseldorf and Dortmund. The airline would like to expand at Schiphol but ‘the airport is just too dear and they won’t listen to us’. EasyJet will soon be launching a major campaign in the Netherlands to make people aware of the new possibilities.

EasyJet has been unhappy with Schiphol for some time, saying that, in spite of the abolition of the short-lived environmental tax, it is the most high-priced airport in Europe. The airline submitted a complaint to the Dutch Competition Authority in 2008. According to EasyJet, Schiphol is guilty of discrimination in making passengers using Schiphol as their departure point pay twice as much in extra charges as passengers in transit.
 

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