Shall we talk about Schiphol for a moment?

Did you also have that? That at a certain point you stopped whining and complaining about Schiphol because you realized that this was a problem that couldn't be solved with just a few strokes of a pen? Staff needed to be found, trained, and screened by the AIVD. Oh yes, and applying for a Schiphol pass also took at least a month. Or two. So we decided, just like during corona, to breathe out and adapt. We didn't fly, or went on a three-week trip with hand luggage, or we just stood in that never-ending line. Yesterday our Daan went to Barcelona on a press trip. A Monday in September, with hand luggage. That shouldn't be so difficult. At 11:00 AM a message: flight missed. Customs staff didn't wait a minute longer than necessary, no one came to help. Everyone exhausted after so many months of mopping with the tap open. For a pittance.

Because what turns out? Our Dick Benschop showed some improvement for a few months and gave more pay, but now that summer is over we just return to the squeezing rations. And yes, then no staff shows up. Strange, right? I'm curious if Dick Benschop dares to ask for money again for coffee and tea. And does the ground staff also have to pay for the toilets or is that still just free? Can someone maybe explain to Mr. Benschop that the bath drains when you pull the plug? It's not a matter of just putting it in to calm things down and then going back to your old pattern. That's not how it works. Can we please find someone else who can get things back in line there for six hundred thousand? Better than this seems to be quickly found.