KLM will temporarily stop the sale of tickets for flights that will depart from Schiphol the upcoming days. The airline announced the measure because of the large crowds at its home base airport, the second-largest in the European Union. The pause on sales regards ticketing on KLM flights until this Sunday.
Schiphol asked Defense for help with crowds at the airport in the past day, Schiphol CEO Dick Benschop said. “The answer was no. I want to leave it at that,” Benschop said.
On Monday, a man sexually assaulted a 19-year-old woman for about 40 minutes on a train from Amsterdam to Alkmaar. She only managed to get away and ask for help once the train stopped in Alkmaar. The police are looking for the perpetrator.
The rise of female managers is not immediately decreasing the wage gap between men and women, according to research by Utrecht University and Radboud University. The researchers found that a female superior does not automatically mean the woman working below her will get paid better, the Volkskrant reports.
Despite uproar two years ago around the “anti-gay declaration” that reformed Christian schools made parents sign, very little has changed. In their most recent online school guides and identity profiles, 36 out of 161 schools still denounce sexual relations between two people of the same gender.
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