As of: February 1, 2024, 8:30 a.m
By: Andreas Beschorner
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The aircraft noise commission again received many complaints.
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Passenger numbers, flight movements, complaints, night flights and air quality – the 69th meeting of the Aircraft Noise Commission was dominated by numbers.
There they are pushing to advance the topics of taxibots (hybrid aircraft tugs) and low-sulphur kerosene.
Airport - “There has to be movement,” said chairman and Freising district administrator Helmut Petz.
In terms of the key data, the year 2023 was better than 2022, but not yet as good as the pre-Corona year 2019. This is how we can summarize what FMG authorized representative Josef Schwendner announced to the aircraft noise commission: 37 million passengers were processed (22.7 percent less than 2019) and 302,150 takeoffs and landings in the moss were counted (27.6 percent less than 2019).
Traffic to Asia (see report above) and the USA is above pre-Corona levels, so long-haul flights are “in great demand,” but “domestic German traffic is still weak,” said Schwendner.
FMG environmental officer Hermann Blomeyer also had figures with him: Half of the planes at the MUC are already “quiet” Chapter 14 aircraft (“This is a very positive development”).
The air quality at the measuring stations is sometimes “very positive”.
However, there was a headwind to what Blomeyer explained regarding night flights: 57 flights per year on average are six more than in 2022, but only five percent of them were during the core time between midnight and 5 a.m.
The noise quota was only used to 50 percent in 2023, in 2022 it was 39 percent, and in 2019 it was 71 percent.
When asked by Neufahrn's mayor Franz Heilmeier where the increase from 2022 to 2023 came from, Blomeyer answered that only half of the quota had been used up and "we will have even more flight movements at night" - an answer that Heilmeier gave “sobered up”.
Josef Schwendner explained that the time difference cannot be eliminated on Asian flights, and the higher the number of flight movements, the higher the number of night flights.
And then you were at the report on the complaints received by the FMG, German air traffic control and the government in 2023.
The FMG received 142 complaints from 75 complainants in 2023, Blomeyer reported.
There were 5,388 complaints from 96 complainants to the government of Upper Bavaria last year, according to aircraft noise protection officer Robert Biberger.
Of course, 5,177 of them came from four complainants alone.
For comparison, 2022: There were a total of 3,808 complaints from 85 people.
If you exclude the 5177 from the statistics, the following picture emerges, says Biberger: Most of the complaints came from Attenkirchen (56), followed by Fahrenzhausen (24), Zolling (16) and Kirchdorf (13).
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Those responsible reacted rather cautiously to Kirchdorf's mayor Uwe Gerlsbeck's suggestion that the aircraft types be assigned to the complaints.
That would be “very time-consuming and difficult”.
Thomas Enghofer from Kranzberg didn't think so: He once evaluated the data from the measuring station near Gremertshausen and found that the majority of the complaints related to A380 and Boeing 767 flights.
According to Wolfgang Herrmann from the Freising Citizens' Association and representatives of the Federal Association against Aircraft Noise, they want to set out together on taxibots and low-sulphur kerosene.
Blomeyer had reported that the argument against the use of taxibots at the MUC was the already short taxiing times, which are needed to warm up the engines, and the construction of several kilometers of taxiways for the tugs, which in turn costs a lot of money.
And when it comes to low-sulfur kerosene, Blomeyer emphasized that the airlines, not FMG, buy the kerosene.
Now you want to collect information and have reports drawn up and then pour the findings into a corresponding application.
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