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The Netherlands’ Royal Schiphol Group, which is the owner and operator of three Dutch airports – the Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Rotterdam The Hague Airport and Lelystad Airport – has reported a loss of €28 million in 2022, in spite of a strong recovery in passenger traffic.
In a statement released today, February 17, the group has revealed that the loss occurred due to upscaling issues, due to which the airports all-together incurred extra costs of approximately €120 million, that as a result overshadowed the operational performance of Schiphol, SchengenVisaInfo.com reports.
Commenting on the financial results of 2022, the CEO of Royal Schiphol Group Ruud Sondag said that last year Schiphol’s efforts and hard work did not result in providing the services the group wanted, as a result of which the number of disappointed travellers and airlines was the highest ever recorded in the history of Schiphol.
“2022 will therefore go down as a bad chapter in our own history books. But it is also a chapter we will not forget, so that all new chapters we write will be better. We are working hard on this, and in 2022 we started to implement structural improvements,” CEO Sondag said, convinced that in 2023 the three airports under the group’s operation will perform better.
The report shows that in 2022 the Amsterdam Airport Schiphol connected the Netherlands to 313 direct destinations, which is 17 more than in the previous year, 2021, in which are included Austin, United States, Denpasar Bali, Indonesia, and Rovaniemi, Finland.
This means that even in 2021, despite the financial loss, the Schiphol has held the top spot when it comes for direct connectivity, while worldwide it is ranked third.
The airport has marked a 49 per cent increase in air transport movement (397,646) compared to 2021, while cargo volumes plummeted by 14 per cent to 1.44 million tons.
Earlier in January, SchengenVisaInfo.com reported that a total of 52.5 million passengers travelled to, from, or through the Netherlands’ Schiphol airport in 2022an increase of 106 per cent compared to 2021, when 25.5 million travellers were recorded. Yet, the numbers still remain by 27 per cent below the 2019 figures, before the outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic.
The January report shows that The Hague Airport in Rotterdam recorded more than 2.1 million travellers, an increase of +180 per cent compared to 2021, through 15,772 air transport movements, which is 156 per cent more than in 2021.
In the summer of 2022, Schiphol was hit by several difficulties which resulted in the cancellation and delay of thousands of flights. In order to deal with themthe Schiphol Airport was forced to put a cap in the number of flights.
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