Many professions in the aviation industry are subject to the requirement that the employee must live within one hour’s travel time from the airport. This requirement applies, in particular, to operational professions (47.1% of the working population) and flight crew/cabin crew (23.8%). This also helps to explain the striking geographic concentration of employees, who work at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, around Amsterdam and (mainly) around cities with a reliable and fast road or rail connection to the airport.
Figure 13 shows that airport employees are chiefly, but not only, resident in the vicinity of Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. However, Schiphol is increasingly being forced to recruit new personnel from remote regions, as show in Table 13.
| Distance to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol | 2006 | 2008 | 2010 | 2013 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Employees living at a 0-10 km commuting distance | % | 3,9% | 5,6% | 6,2% | 6,1% |
| Employees living at a 10-25 km commuting distance | % | 38,0% | 39,1% | 36,6% | 36,3% |
| Employees living at a commuting distance greater than 25 km % | % | 58,1% | 55,3% | 57,2% | 57,6% |
| Average commuting distance to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol | km | 23,8 | 37,7 | 38,5 | 39,4 |
| Job growth at Schiphol compared to the previous reference year | % | 6,93% | 4,46% | -7,89% | 7,92% |