Hello and welcome to episode 210 of Avtalk. I am Ian Petchenic here once again as always with Hello Jason

Rebecca what's here good to be back. Thanks for flying solo last week Ian that

was exciting for you.

Exciting's a word for it but we got it done. I hope people enjoyed the episode.

I even listened to it. You need a great job. Let's see we've done 210 episodes a few more because we've got a few special

episodes in there so is that the first or second one you've listened to maybe one

in so I've got a couple of catch up on it gets good in the second season let me tell you

Well, I hope you're feeling better. Yes, thank you and welcome back to full strength and welcome back to the show

Thank you. What do we got this week? We've got a ton of stuff. Yeah, so let's start in the Netherlands with what's been going on at Skippel Airport. This week a local Dutch court ruled against Skippel saying

that they did not follow proper procedures before they attempted to implement a

flight cap of four hundred and sixty thousand flights

for the beginning of the 2023 winter season.

So this would go into effect in fall of 2023.

They were previously or I guess currently are still at 500,000 flights and they were going to move that down to

four hundred and sixty thousand. Airlines, Iada sued and said, hey, that's not the agreement that we were promised.

And the judge said, yeah, you didn't follow the, you can remove flights, but only after everything else has been satisfied to meet these goals and you

didn't follow proper procedures.

So what the Dutch government, which is a majority owner of Skippel, has said is that they want to limit

flights at Skippel to 440,000 flights beginning in the 2024, 2025 winter season.

So the fall of 2024 they want to have removed by then 60,000

flights per year from Skippel Airport in Amsterdam. That's a lot.

That's a lot of flights.

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