At least six activists from the environmental organizations Greenpeace and Extinction Rebellion have been arrested during an ongoing action in which a runway used by private planes at Amsterdam-Schiphol International Airport has been occupied.”The Royal Military Police has just carried out a series of arrests at Schiphol-East related to people who are not authorized on the airport grounds,” the police agency said in a statement posted on Twitter. the runway to leave the area under threat of arrest. “Climate activists at Schiphol. They are asked to leave the area of operations. If they do not comply with this, they risk being arrested,” he said. Some 500 activists — according to Greenpeace — scaled the airport fences and sat under several private jets to prevent them from taking off. Some have chained themselves to the jets while others cycled down the runway. “We have grounded mega-polluting private jets at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol alongside Extinction Rebellion Netherlands. Private planes are the fastest way to travel!” Schiphol must stop polluting. Stopping unnecessary private planes is the first step,” Greenpeace Netherlands posted on its Twitter account. not a single private plane takes off and we are going to stay as long as possible.” Extinction Rebellion has assured that they have managed to stop “all private flights” from the “VIP terminal” at Schiphol. “A private jet is the most polluting way to travel. 5 to 14 times more polluting than a ‘normal’ plane. Today we block these shitty flights together with Extinction Rebellion Netherlands. Our demand? No more private jets and ultra-short flights”, added Greenpeace. Greenpeace had announced an “action” for Saturday, before which the director of Schiphol, Ruud Sondag, asked environmentalists on Friday to be “clean”.