Next week, we expect an average of 565 flights per day at Schiphol. The peak landing times in the morning and in the evening will be followed by peak take-off times, possibly involving the deployment of a second runway. As a result of the maintenance works being carried out on the Aalsmeerbaan Runway, the Buitenveldertbaan and Zwanenburgbaan runways may be used in a southerly direction more frequently. Which runway is used at a particular time depends on air traffic volumes and on weather conditions. Download the full fact sheet (in Dutch) here: bezoekbas.nl.
Published on: 30 October 2020
Runway use at night
While the maintenance on the Aalsmeerbaan Runway is being carried out, work will also be done at night on the intersections with other runways. As a result, the Kaagbaan Runway will be unavailable at night between 23:00 and 06:00, from Monday 2nd November to Thursday 5th November. On Tuesday night and Wednesday night (3 – 4 November), the Buitenveldertbaan Runway will be out of use too. This means that the Zwanenburgbaan Runway will be used, in addition to the Polderbaan Runway.
Peaks
In the week of 2 – 8 November, we are expecting the following daily peaks:
Take-off:
- between 09:20 and 11:00 in the morning;
- between 20:20 and 21:20 in the evening.
Landing:
- between 07:20 and 08:40 in the morning;
- between 18:40 and 20:00 in the evening.
A look back at 19 – 25 October
We had predicted an average of 630 flights per day at Schiphol for the week of 19 – 25 October. In the end, we had 617. As per usual, the majority of air traffic took off from or landed on the Polderbaan and Kaagbaan runways. The Aalsmeerbaan Runway was mainly used as a second runway for take-off at peak times, and was used as the main runway on one occasion due to brief maintenance on the Kaagbaan Runway. The Zwanenburgbaan Runway was primarily used as a second runway for landing. On 20th October, the Schiphol-Oostbaan Runway was used for landings because of a southwesterly storm.
Take a look at the full report in the factsheet (pdf).