Mr. Michael O'Leary:

The answer is that you need to be very careful with the Dutch. What has happened with the policy in Holland is twofold. First, they have lots of alternative ways of travelling across Europe. You can use trains or motorways. There are no issues. The Dutch are also engaged in massively protecting KLM from competition. They are artificially reducing capacity and slots at Schipol Airport. They are forcing the other airlines, like ourselves and Easyjet, to reduce our capacity there. They have come up with a list of measures where connecting flights get priority but point-to-point carriers have to reduce their flights and take them out of there. A lot of what is going on in Amsterdam and Rotterdam is about protecting KLM. It is nothing at all to do with the environment. If they were really concerned about the environment, they would be asking their national airline, KLM, to pay its fair share of environmental taxes on 100% of its traffic. What they do is they exempt 84% of KLM traffic.