Airports in a Dogfight Over Jet Noise

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A raging noise battle between Burbank’s national Bob Hope Airport and the general aviation Van Nuys Airport is getting, well, louder. And residents at both ends of the Valley are losing sleep over it.

Burbank eventually wants to send 32 flights a day to Van Nuys to ease congestion. Van Nuys officials don’t want any of Burbank’s air traffic, but they want to divert their noisiest aircraft to Burbank and other airports. Getting the two airports to play nicely in the control tower isn’t likely to happen anytime soon. And residents would like both to stop squabbling and adopt a simple solution.

Oddly enough, both airports are willing to impose nighttime curfews on all but emergency flights. But permission from the Federal Aviation Administration to impose the curfews is hard to come by and could take months or even years.




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