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Lelystad Airport and the companies located there want to be as quickly as possible\nclarity on whether or not the airport will open for vacation flights. The Cabinet\nwon’t take a decision until 2024, but the continued postponement means the airport is at a standstill. That\nsaid several speakers Thursday during a meeting at the new terminal of\nLelystad Airport.The airport gave here together with companies, farmers, and regional politics\nkicking off an anniversary year in which Lelystad Airport celebrates its 50th anniversary. The official birthday\nis only Nov. 19, but several events are planned throughout the year.<\/p>\n
Lelystad Airport opened in 1973 as a grass runway field in the newly constructed eastern\nFlevoland. After the arrival of a paved track, it developed into a place for\nflight schools and small aviation. In 1993, Schiphol Group bought the airport for 1\nguilders and wanted to turn it into an airport for business jets early this century. In 2009\ncabinet and House of Representatives agreed to cabinet advisor Hans Alders’ plan to\nmake Lelystad an overflow airport of Schiphol to serve the Amsterdam region.\nrelief.An airport decision came into effect in 2015, but it had to be amended\nafter activist groups found errors in noise and nitrogen calculations.\nAfter that, the opening for vacation flights was postponed several times. In\n2024 to tie the knot, but due to the discussion about nitrogen and climate change and\nconcerns about low flight paths over Gelderland and Overijssel, there is widespread opposition to the\nopening.<\/p>\n
“Ultimately, my ultimate dream though is that the Dutch vacation travelers will come here from\nis going to leave and we are working very hard on that,” said Jan Eerkens, general manager of Lelystad Airport since August. Minister Mark Harbers links opening to two\nboundary conditions: Lelystad must have a nature permit and there must be a solutions\nare over a low flight path over Overijssel.\nAccording to Eerkens, there is progress in both cases. “We are going to accomplish that we have a\nnature permit. Before that, we bought three farms to make the\nto offset nitrogen emissions from the airport.” Those farms were purchased in\nGelderland, much to the displeasure of the provincial government there. Eerkens confirmed that there were\nmore nitrogen space than the airport needs for the 10,000 initially planned\naircraft movements of wholesale traffic. The airport plans to offer the surplus to\nagricultural businesses in Gelderland or Flevoland, which previously submitted a so-called PAS notification\nhad requested. It was invalidated by the State Council in 2019.<\/p>\n
With the low flight path in the minister’s hands, Eerkens said. “We call it a\napproach route at Lemelerveld. There, planes fly at 1.8 kilometers, for which a\nplan should be put in place to put those up. There, the ministry joined with\nAir Traffic Control the Netherlands (LVNL) is working hard on it,” Eerkens said. Minister Harbers\nand his predecessor Cora van Nieuwenhuizen previously said that putting the route higher\nover this part of Overijssel as far as Zwolle was not possible, because traffic towards\nSchiphol passes. An LVNL employee said when asked that a solution is being worked on\nworked, but there is good hope that this will succeed.<\/p>\n
“All cabinets until today have Lelystad in the coalition agreement. The province,\nmunicipality and businesses have invested. Current users also say: give me now\nthat clarity. Everyone needs that clarity,” Jan Eerkens said.\nThis was confirmed by Luuk van Hooijdonk of flight company Wings over Holland, which is celebrating 40 years this year\nsits at Lelystad Airport. The company cannot make investment decisions while the\npolitics has not tied the knot over the vacation airport. “It lies still. Important\nis that a decision be made as to which way it will go. We stand as a company but also as\nairport at a T-junction. We can’t turn left, we can’t turn right, we don’t know\nwhat’s going to happen. Deep in my heart I hope that big aviation does not come, but if it does\nthere comes I’d rather know today than tomorrow.”<\/p>\n
Van Hooijdonk fears that an active flight school will eventually have no place if the\nBoeings and Airbuses are coming. “That won’t happen right away at 10,000 moves, but\neventually at 45,000 movements, not much is left for small aviation. So you\nwill have to change with it. I could move the flight school out to another\nairport, Teuge for example, which does allow me to keep doing those moves. But that\ntakes preparation. But I can’t do anything, because if politics decides it won’t open, then\nof course I’m not going to do that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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