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http://ardent.mit.edu/airports/ASP_papers/multi-airport%20systems%20policy%20guidelines.PDF. Accessed March 29, 2010

What is the viability of a multi-airport system for the Amsterdam metropolitan region and, more generally, in the Dutch and European Union context?

1. Would the costs be prohibitive compared to the benefits provided?
2. Would the airlines, passengers and cargo shippers actually use the kind of second airport that might be provided?

More specifically, the questions to be addressed are:

1. Is a distribution of traffic in which Amsterdam Airport Schiphol is saturated (with about 45 to 50 million annual passengers), and the second airport has the projected overflow (around 5 to 15 million annual passengers), viable economically and operationally?
2. To what extent would this kind of distribution be stable, given the constantly evolving levels of overall traffic and the competition from other airports?