KLM Royal Dutch Airlines,or simply KLM,is the flag carrier of the Netherlands. KLM is headquartered in Amstelveen,with its hub at nearby Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. It is a subsidiary of the Air France–KLM group and a member of the SkyTeam airline alliance. Founded in 1919,KLM is the oldest operating airline in the world,and has 35,488 employees with a fleet of 110 aircraft as of 2021. KLM operates scheduled passenger and cargo services to 145 destinations.
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol,known informally as Schiphol Airport,is the main international airport of the Netherlands,and is one of the major hubs for the SkyTeam airline alliance. It is located 9 kilometres southwest of Amsterdam,in the municipality of Haarlemmermeer in the province of North Holland. It is the world's third busiest airport by international passenger traffic in 2023. With almost 72 million passengers in 2019,it is the third-busiest airport in Europe in terms of passenger volume and the busiest in Europe in terms of aircraft movements. With an annual cargo tonnage of 1.74 million,it is the 4th busiest in Europe. AMS covers a total area of 6,887 acres of land. The airport is built on the single-terminal concept:one large terminal split into three departure halls.
Martinair is a Dutch cargo and former passenger airline headquartered and based at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. The airline was founded in 1958 by Martin Schröder,and is currently a subsidiary of Air France–KLM. Since 2011,Martinair has operated entirely as a cargo airline with scheduled services to 20 destinations worldwide and additional charter flights. Prior to that date,passenger flights were also operated.
Haarlemmermeer is a municipality in the west of the Netherlands,in the province of North Holland. Haarlemmermeer is a polder,consisting of land reclaimed from water. The name Haarlemmermeer means 'Haarlem's lake',referring to the body of water from which the region was reclaimed in the 19th century.
Brussels Airport —also informally called Brussels-National Airport or Brussels-Zaventem Airport —is an international airport in the municipality of Zaventem in Flemish Brabant,6.5 nautical miles northeast of Brussels,Belgium. In 2019,more than 26 million passengers arrived or departed at Brussels Airport,making it the 26th busiest airport in Europe. It is home to around 260 companies,together directly employing 20,000 people and serves as the home base for Brussels Airlines and TUI fly Belgium. BRU covers 1,245 hectares and contains three runways.
Hoofddorp is the main town of the municipality of Haarlemmermeer,in the province of North Holland,the Netherlands. In 2021,the population was 77,885. The town was founded in 1853,immediately after the Haarlemmermeer had been drained.
Jorma Jaakko Ollila is a Finnish businessman who was chairman of Royal Dutch Shell from 1 June 2006 to May 2015,and at Nokia Corporation chairman from 1999 to 2012 and CEO from 1992 to 2006. He has been a director of Otava Books and Magazines Group Ltd. since 1996 and UPM-Kymmene since 1997,and an advisory partner at Perella Weinberg Partners,a New York–based boutique investment bank founded by Joseph R. Perella and Peter Weinberg in 2006.
Surinam Airways,also known by its initials SLM,is the flag carrier of Suriname,based in Paramaribo. It operates regional and long-haul scheduled passenger services. Its hub is at Johan Adolf Pengel International Airport (Zanderij). Surinam Airways is wholly owned by the Government of Suriname.
Groningen Airport Eelde is a minor international airport in the northeastern Netherlands. It is located near Eelde in the Province of Drenthe,4.8 nautical miles south of the city of Groningen in the province of Groningen. In 2015,the airport handled 220,710 passengers. The airport is also the home base of the KLM Flight Academy,Noord Nederlandse Aero Club (NNAC) and General Enterprises.
Royal Schiphol Group is a Dutch airport management company.
The Omroepvereniging VARA,the VARA Broadcasting Association,was a Dutch public broadcasting association primarily operating in the fields of television,radio,publishing and interactive media. It was a member of Netherlands Public Broadcasting.
Gerardus Johannes "Hans" Wijers is a Dutch retired politician of the Democrats 66 (D66) party,and businessman. He is the chairman of the supervisory board of ING Group since 2018.
TUI fly Netherlands,legally incorporated as TUI Airlines Netherlands,is a Dutch charter airline headquartered in Schiphol-Rijk on the grounds of Amsterdam Airport Schiphol in Haarlemmermeer,Netherlands. It is the charter carrier of the Dutch arm of the German travel conglomerate TUI Group and its main base is Schiphol Airport.
The fourth Balkenende cabinet was the executive branch of the Government of the Netherlands from 22 February 2007 until 14 October 2010. The cabinet was formed by the Christian-democratic Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) and Christian Union (CU) and the social-democratic Labour Party (PvdA) after the election of 2006. The cabinet was a centrist grand coalition and had a slim majority in the House of Representatives with Christian Democratic Leader Jan Peter Balkenende serving as prime minister. Labour Leader Wouter Bos served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance while Social Christian Leader AndréRouvoet served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister without Portfolio for Health,Welfare and Sport.
Khadija Arib is a Moroccan-Dutch politician of the Labour Party,who served as Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands from 12 December 2015 to 7 April 2021. In the 2016 Speaker of the Dutch House of Representatives election on 13 January,she was elected to the position,which she had served as Acting Speaker since the resignation of Anouchka van Miltenburg on 12 December 2015. Arib became a member of the House of Representatives following the 1998 Dutch general election and served until 2022,with a brief interruption between 2006 and 2007.
Johannes Gerardus Maria "Hans" Alders is a retired Dutch politician Labour Party (PvdA) and businessman. He is the Chairman of the Supervisory board of rail transport company ProRail since 27 June 2014. He is also chairman of the Alders tables for the airports Schiphol,Eindhoven and Lelystad. Alders was previously Minister of Housing,Spatial Planning and the Environment (1989—1994) and Queen's Commissioner (1996—2007) in the province of Groningen. Hans Alders was National Coordinator Groningen from 1 June 2015. On 30 May 2018 he announced his resignation.
Jos Nijhuis is a Dutch businessman,and the former Chief Executive of Schiphol Group,which runs Schiphol Airport.
The Commander of the Armed Forces is the professional head of the National Army,the military of the Republic of Suriname. The position dates back to the country's independence from the Netherlands in 1975,with the military being named the Surinamese Armed Forces until after the Sergeants' Coup in 1980.
During the COVID-19 pandemic in the Netherlands,various measures were taken by the government. On the advice of the Outbreak Management Team (OMT) set up by the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM),many successive decisions were taken in a short period of time. The first preventive measures came into effect on Monday,January 27,2020.
The parliamentary inquiry into natural gas extraction Groningen was a parliamentary inquiry by the Dutch House of Representatives between 2021 and 2023 and was investigating the natural gas extraction from the Groningen gas field and the problems that it caused. The goal of the inquiry was to gain insight into decision-making regarding natural gas extraction,earthquakes,damage handling and reinforcement of buildings.
