There were no breakthroughs, just a promise by all sides to keep working on an agreement to reduce noise in neighborhoods along the Potomac. But there is still no consensus that the noise actually is worse than it used to be.
"That’s the big question right now. And we are looking at a lot of the data right now to see what is affecting some of the neighborhood perceptions in both Arlington and D.C.," says Laura Brown with the FAA which gave a presentation during a meeting with officials at the airports authority, the airlines, and homeowners.
Robert vom Eigen of the Citizens Association of Georgetown was at the meeting. He says the noise problem is not just a perception.
"In the last couple of months, I’ve noticed for the first time in 30 years living in west Georgetown that all of a sudden planes are flying over 35th Street," Eigen says. "They were located further west before. Now they are flying right over our neighborhoods."
American Airlines vice president Michael Minerva says the airlines are taking those complaints seriously to try to reach a compromise.
"They are expressing legitimate concerns about aircraft noise. We are a member of this community. Several of us live here and so it is important to us to try to address these concerns as best we can," Minerva says.
As WAMU has reported, residents near the airport say there are two main problems: more flights late at night and early in the morning, and modified flight paths are concentrating planes over certain neighborhoods.
Source: http://wamu.org
A jet flies over Gravelly Point in Arlington before landing at Reagan National.
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