This archive report was first published on 25 July 2019.
Amsterdam's Schiphol airport, one of the world's busiest transport hubs, continued to experience disruptions on Thursday, July 25, 2019, after a malfunction in the kerosene refuelling system on Wednesday.
Dozens of flights were suspended on Wednesday, and the disruptions persisted into Thursday, with Dutch airline KLM announcing it had cancelled 61 flights from Schiphol.
"We are restarting our operations gradually," a KLM spokeswoman told AFP.
On Wednesday night, around 300 flights from Amsterdam-Schiphol were cancelled due to a malfunction by the only company at the airport which supplies the fuel system, Aircraft Fuel Supply.
Tens of thousands of passengers were affected, with many stuck on aircrafts that were grounded. Some travellers whose planes could not take off on Wednesday were forced to spend the night at the airport, a spokeswoman for Amsterdam-Schiphol said.
