Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport is to stimulate charter airlines such as Transavia to move to regional airports so that it can concentrate on business traffic, the Telegraaf reports on Tuesday.

‘Schiphol would prefer to be without holiday traffic. It has less value for us,’ the paper quoted Schiphol boss Jos Nijhuis as saying.
It said Nijhuis was reacting to protests from charter airline Arkefly which wants to fly from Schiphol but has been refused landing rights.
Agreement
The aim, which has been agreed with KLM and politicians, is to make Schiphol a strong and sustainable base for business traffic, which benefits the regional economy, the paper said.
KLM has already said its charter subsidiary Transavia is focusing its expansion on Eindhoven and Rotterdam airports. Holiday firm Corendon is also in talks with Lelystad airport, the paper said.
British budget airline Easyjet has been trying to expand its Schiphol services for years and feels it is disadvantaged by the KLM deal.
‘I do not know why travellers… accept the fact they have to go further for a cheap ticket. They should protest,’ CEO Carolyn McCall told the paper