Netherlands

As Dutch government imposes stricter COVID-19 rules, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines halts all of its long-haul flights to the Netherlands beginning January 22, 2021....

A court in the Hague rejected Greenpeace's claim to impose stronger environmental conditions on state-supported KLM Royal Dutch Airlines....

Oleg Pulatov, one of the four suspects tried in absentia by the Netherlands for the murder of 298 passengers on Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, addressed Schiphol court in a video. The former Lieutenant colonel in the Russian Armed Forces said he had seen no sign of the type of missile allegedly used to bring down the aircraft....

The government of Netherlands froze €3.4 billion-worth of financial aid to KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (KLM), after the trade unions of the airline refused to sign a five-year agreement related to stricter terms of pilot wage cuts....

Among several other deficiencies, the Koninklijke Luchtmacht (KLu), the Royal Dutch Air Force identified a defect on its F-35A fighter jets that could potentially lead to a fuel vapor explosion in case of a lightning strike....

Greenpeace will take legal action against the Dutch government, accused of bailing out the airline KLM with 3.4 billion of state aid without any ecological counterpart....

Qatar Airways Cargo has signed five-year contracts for cargo handling in Manchester and Birmingham airports in the UK....

The Dutch government announced that it would bring Russia before the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) "for its role in the destruction of flight MH17". The flight had been shot down over Ukraine in 2014, killing 298 people....

Two months after France decided to grant €7 billion to the airline group, the Netherlands comes to the rescue of Air France-KLM with €3.4 billion in state aid....

When the Dutch authorities upped their stake in Air France-KLM in February 2019, the decision raised many eyebrows. It was not only surprising but also unlawful, as a Dutch courts’ ruling now shows....