Dutch defer plan to expand second Amsterdam airport


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| 2018/02/21 | 397 words | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | AIR TRANSPORT

The Dutch government Wednesday postponed plans to expand Amsterdam's second airport to ease pressure on the near-capacity Schiphol, after hitting turbulence over noise pollution fears.Lelystad airport, which lies about 50 kilometres (30 miles) east of the Dutch capital, will now "realistically only be expanded in 2020," Dutch Infrastructure Minister Cora van Nieuwenhuizen said."We all know that Schiphol has almost reached capacity and that for Schiphol, Lelystad should have already been ther...(…)

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