Typically speaking easyjet tend to get back at a more reasonable time, as do Ryanair. Of course you will always get delays which result in later arrivals, but Jet2 have expanded into night time flying because the slots at overseas airports are becoming harder to obtain, so with an aggressive expansion you need to start flying at less ideal times. Notice they quietly dropped the friendly flight times tag some time ago?
True, I think some might consider pre midnight as more acceptable than between 12 midnight and 0700. What I don’t get is how the noise is actually that bad when aircraft are on approach. Take-off I could understand, but I’ve stayed below the approach of a number of airports and have never even noticed when an aircraft is on approach. If the people complaining are those in Scotland lane and directly below short final then perhaps I could understand, but they will have purchased their house there knowing that there is an airport a short distance away. If you buy there you simply cannot complain about increased use at any time of the day.
When i was younger we looked at a house on the Scotland estate late 90s and i love planes, flying etc but as an F27 flew past and i could see the pilot i had the foresight to think it's only going to get busier. So more fool the idiots that pay the prices on the Scotland estate.
I do believe that is true. I don't think many folk in proximity to the airport complain quite a few actually work there. Of course there is some background noise but I think the claims are grossly over stated and come from the wider area where aircraft are higher on approach. These folk seem to have connections with the Green and Just Stop Oil mafia as evidenced by many of the objectors to the new Terminal project not being from the local area. The local majority are silent as they don't feel they have anything to complain about - unless of course there's an article posted on facebook where the vast majority of local comments are are pro-airport.
And both students and staff will happily hop on aircraft for their gap years and holidays. Sheer hypocrisy.
I suppose we don't know that. What we do know is that for its last financial year, Leeds University registered £276m in fees from 14,400 international students. The university makes an annual surplus (profit) of £73m, so without those fees it would be screwed. And it's those fees helping to pay the wages of everyone that works at the uni, roughly speaking 30p in every £1 earned by a uni employee is paid for by international students. All of which of course is completely dependant on the global network of airlines and airports to get students (and presumably visits from their friends and families) here. But as most of these students arrive from far-flung destinations, they'll mostly arrive into Heathrow and Manchester and then take surface transport here. A win-win. The uni and its staff get the money, but none of them will be disturbed by the students flying in or out. Kerching !
Great info thanks
My understanding is that although the inquiry in March is open to the public for viewing, it's not a normal public inquiry in which these people can state their case either themselves or using an anti airport legal bod. It's a legal matter, nothing at all to do with them. Either the airport are legally correct or the Council are.
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