To meet the Paris climate agreement, the Dutch airport is introducing a few new regulations for overnight flights and private jets.

In order to reduce noise pollution, the Dutch airport Schiphol will no longer allow commercial or cargo flights to depart between midnight and 6am or land between midnight and 5am.

Presently around 10.000 flights run during overnight hours, per year. Starting in November these flights will gradually be faded out.

With this measure airport officials claim they will eliminate 54 % of “severe sleep disturbances” and the number of local residents who experience severe nuisance will fall by 16%.

Additionally,  Schiphol wants to ban private jets between certain time periods, this time to reduce CO2 emissions. According to airport officials private jets and small business aviation cause a “disproportionate” amount of noise pollution.

Noisy and outdated planes will also be prohibited on Schiphol runway; they want to gradually tighten their existing standards.

Furthermore the plans for an additional runway in Amsterdam are also being abandoned and the airport is asking the government to revoke the reservation.

Ruud Sondag, the CEO of the Royal Schiphol group wants to find a better way to connect the Netherlands with the rest of the world: “The only way forward is to become quieter and cleaner more rapidly. We need to be sustainable for our employees, the local environment and the world.”

He acknowledged that these new regulations will be a challenge for all airlines, but he deems them necessary. “It is the only way, based on concrete measures, to regain the trust of employees, passengers, neighbours, politics and society.”