60 Reasons to Protest: Reason #47 – Misleading data & flawed engagement Both Airservices and BAC have argued that they have “consulted widely” in the lead-up to the 2020 launch of Brisbane’s new flight path architecture. Have you received any honest, easy-to-understand and accurate information? For example: Compare this with Airservices’ “Commitment Read more
60 Reasons to Protest: Reason #48 – Property Devaluations In 2013 Brisbane Airport Corporation paid for a study into “the potential impact of aircraft noise on Brisbane residential property prices in response to community concerns about the impact of flight paths and aircraft noise on property value.” The study found Read more
60 Reasons to Protest: Reason #49 – No Incentives for Reducing Aviation Noise Are you also able to tell a Jetstar plane from the rest of them? BFPCA has heard many complaints about a particular high-pitch, annoying sound emanating from the Airbus A320 family of aircraft. It’s the main one Jetstar Read more
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