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Dynamic Air of Eindhoven has bought fellow Dutch company Rijmond Air Services. The takeover occurred in mid-November. Rijmond's assets include a maintenance centre in Rotterdam, a Mitsubishi Marquise, and its captain and Rijmond's chief pilot, Dick Samson.\rPrior to the buy-out, Dynamic Air's charter fleet was comprised of two Citation Is and two Citation IIs. According to Rod Buijs, joint manager, the MU-2 has been welcomed by the charter company's customers. Buijs spoke to EBAN about Dynamic Air's strategy:\r"Our first objective was to get our own maintenance facility for our Citations. Rijmond's base at Rotterdam has this and, also, Rotterdam airport is open 24 hours a day. \r"Rijmond fits all our needs. Now we must get investing in Citation expertise."\rThe company is undergoing rapid expansion, with a Citation Excel scheduled for delivery early in 2001, and possible replacements for the Citation Is: "We have one option for December 2000 for a CitationJet, and we will decide within the next two weeks if we will confirm this option or make another one. \r"In addition to this, we are also making the drawings for FBO facilities at Eindhoven, where we plan to do the ground handling for our customers."\rDespite being busy, Buijs has maintained a typically Dutch sense of perspective: "At this time there is a lot going on. The plan is to finalise by the end of the year, because in the last week, everyone is partying," he said. \r"We are not flying old year's day and new year's day. Eindhoven airport is closed, we don't have any bookings and our employees and pilots like to party. There is also a problem with our insurance. The insurance company have said they will not pay up if there is an accident related to the millennium bug. We are confident that there would be no such problem if we were to fly, but if anything did go wrong, the insurers are always going to find a way to relate it to the millennium.\r"The economy in the Netherlands is good. People are more interested in looking further than the airlines. Businessmen see the advantage of travelling in their own aircraft to smaller, local airports. Nowadays, smaller companies can afford to fly by charter."