Protesters against the new runway over noise issues at the official sod-turning for Dublin Airport’s North Runway in February, 2019
THis morning.
Restrictions on nighttime flights and a noise quota system are part of the plans for the operation of the new north runway at Dublin Airport
Via John Kilraine:
The proposals being put forward by the The Aircraft Noise Competent Authority (ANCA) are similar to those proposed by the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA).
There would be a complete ban on flights on the new north runway between midnight and 6am, apart from exceptional circumstances.
This would still allow flights during the busiest times at Dublin Airport, which are between 11pm and 11.30pm and 6am and 7am.
Night flight curbs proposed ahead of new Dublin airport runway (RTÉ)
I’d have sympathy for people living near the airport apart from the rather important fact that Dublin airport has existed for over 80 years. Widespread commercial jet aviation has been a thing there for over 60 years. Nobody alive today moved into the area near it without knowing they’d be living near a busy, international airport. You can’t deliberately choose to live near an airport and then complain about airplane noises.
Particularly when airplanes have actually gotten quieter over the last 40 years, and its Ireland’s one major international airport. These people should be given reasonable CPO offers and the airport allowed to operate without restrictions to maximise the benefits for the rest of the country.
aviation should be scaled back and even taxed more to help offset the carbon.
the idea that aviation should grow year on year is one that needs to change if we are genuinely interested in helping our environment.
that parallel runway won’t be needed for a long time, if ever. daa managed around 33 million passengers in 2019, plus cargo etc. Will be a long time before Dublin sees that again.
also, daa say Dublin Airport is accredited carbon neutral. even if that doesn’t include plane emissions, there’s no way that can be so.
Dublin airport operates at runway capacity during the rush hours already. The new runway was required for capacity constraints 5 years ago, nevermind “won’t be needed for a long time”.
We’re an island nation in the North Atlantic. Aviation is our only connection to the outside world, we can’t get trains. We’re a nation of emigrants and immigrants, who need aviation to maintain family connections. We also have a huge inbound tourism industry entirely dependent on aviation.
Despite the massive economic, social and cultural benefits to the country aviation is still only responsible for 2% of our carbon emissions. So even if we completely gutted the aviation sector, and reduced it by half, with all the resulting damage to the country, we’d have reduced our emissions by…1%.
There are far, far easier ways to reduce our emissions by 1% with far less damage to the country. Agriculture alone accounts for 34% of our emissions, and is largely due to exports..
Couldnt agree more