If LHR can operate an ATC system to accommodate LGW,LTN & STN under its armpit and up its back side, then surely AMS ATC can find a solution to accommodate Lelystad. What is clogging up the issue is all this farm manure about keeping the cows and chickens awake. What the Dutch politics needs is a strong leader who stands up and says this the way it's going to be for the good of the whole country's economics and job creation; and all you tree huggers can **** off. Trouble is that will never happen because there are so many political vested interests who never vote for anyone who told them to shut the **** up and get on with the job. Politics by stagnation. As Churchill said he was," not scared by action but inaction." The idea of Lelystad was gven a green light in 2003 and then cancelled. Here they are 11 years later after nothing.
Let the Dutch have a real forward thinking vision. Build a major expo centre for all the large fares a la NEC at BHX or Palexpo in GVA: build a large conference centre, a suitable hotel, perhaps a theme park, a short motorway link to A6, a high-speed rail link to Amsterdam west and Germany east and south to Eindhoven. There are so many new houses in the region and the people need local jobs. The release of pressure on west Holland for all the ground based businesses and on Schiphol for all the airborne traffic would be significant. That plus the boost in local jobs would be a real injection for long term economic growth for the whole country. The project should be more than just an airport, but that would take the political vision and balls to make such a massive capital investment decision.