60 Reasons to Protest: Reason #50 – 110 flights an hour Brisbane Airport’s aggressive growth trajectory is set to outstrip Sydney as Australia’s busiest airport and be on par with Hong Kong and Singapore. BAC aims for 50 million passengers by 2035 or sooner. That equates to 110 aircraft movements an hour. We Read more
60 Reasons to Protest: Reason #51 – Noise Sharing Related to today’s news media frenzy about Airservices proposing flight path change options is protest reason #51: Airservices rejecting the communtiy’s demands for actual net reductions and instead proposing (AND already adopting!) noise sharing as their preferred option. While Airservices keep Read more
60 Reasons to Protest: Reason #52 – ANO Report While yesterday’s reason #53 about the cross-runway was quite a long read, tonight we do a #ThrowBackThursday to revisit the gobsmacking findings uncovered in the original Aircraft Noise Ombudsman (ANO) report from August 2021. Do have a read of our original press release Read more
60 Reasons to Protest: Reason #53 – What happened to the cross-runway? With the launch of the New Parallel Runway, Brisbane Airport’s cross-runway (14/32, see photo below) was decommissioned. What happened? A cross-runway design can help to reduce aircraft noise pollution much better than a parallel runway design by changing the direction of Read more
60 Reasons to Protest: Reason #54 – Complaints to Airservices go nowhere Airservices Australia systematically stonewalls community members with legitimate complaints about aircraft noise. Community complaints manuals obtained by BFPCA through Freedom of Information requests show how Airservices staff are instructed to provide pre-scripted answers designed to quash complaints and prevent them from Read more
60 Reasons to Protest: Reason #55 – The limited scope of the PIR Not only are Airservices masters of “engagement theatre,” they also have made sure all the essential net noise reduction measures are excluded from scope. Why? “The long-term benefits of Brisbane’s parallel runway system will only be realised if Read more
60 Reasons to Protest: Reason #56 – Who wants to live in an Aerotropolis? Royal Schiphol Group and specifically BAC have long been guided by the vision of turning their host city into an “aerotropolis” – a concept originally proposed by Dr John Kasarda, president and CEO of Aerotropolis Business Read more
60 Reasons to Protest: Reason #57 – Sydney got what Brisbane wants Did you know Sydneysiders enjoy: Brisbanites do not enjoy any of this. Let’s change that, and make sure Brisbane is not treated by Catherine King MP like a second class city. Register for the BFPCA protest: Discuss this Read more
60 Reasons to Protest: Reason #58 – Aviation Noise is Unregulated Construction noise on a Sunday? Neighbours having a loud party after 10pm? Dog barking before 7am? Concerned about the adjacent road, highway, rail line? There are strict local and state government regulations for all sorts of noise pollution. Even Read more
60 Reasons to Protest: Reason #59 – Engagement Theatre It’s been now more than 1,000 days (1,005 to be precise) since the new flight path architecture launched and started to inflict misery on families and communities across 226 suburbs of Greater Brisbane who now find themselves stuck in BAC’s noise Read more