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Lazio authorizes the reduction of flights at Ciampino airport

Posted on March 19, 2021November 17, 2025 by Admin3342

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Mar

It will be the task of the Air Force Authorities to immediately announce the IATA World Conference on June 7, 2021 the new limit to 65 daily flights (landings+decolli) to enter into force as early as October 31, 2021. It’s great news for the thousands of inhabitants of Ciampino, Marino and Rome South, affected […]

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France to scrap ‘obsolete’ Paris airport expansion

Posted on February 15, 2021November 17, 2025 by Admin3342

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Feb

By Tangi QUEMENER and Jurgen HECKER, Paris (AFP) Feb 11, 2021 on Space Daily The French government has decided to cancel a planned expansion of the country’s biggest airport, Paris’s Charles de Gaulle, a minister said in remarks published Thursday. Barbara Pompili, France’s environment minister, told Le Monde newspaper that boosting the airport’s capacity was […]

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Flight paths, UECNA

Flight paths are changing

Posted on February 12, 2021July 27, 2025 by Admin3342

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Feb

Over the next few years there will be changes to flight paths at most airports in Europe. This is because flight paths across the world are being modernized. Air traffic controllers are moving from a ground-based system to a satellite system to guide planes. The new system will allow planes to be guided more accurately. […]

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Noise & Health

Health risks caused by environmental noise

Posted on January 18, 2021July 27, 2025 by Admin3342

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Jan

More than 100 million people in Europe are exposed to harmful levels of environmental noise pollution. Long-term exposure to environmental noise contributes to 48 000 new cases of heart disease and 12 000 premature deaths every year in Europe. In addition, 22 million people suffer chronic high annoyance, and 6.5 million suffer chronic high sleep […]

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Politics

Support for airlines is bottomless pit

Posted on December 21, 2020July 27, 2025 by Admin3342

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Dec

The Dutch government recently presented a new Aviation Bill. It led to massive criticism because it is entirely based on growth without asking how much aviation does the Netherlands actually need. So we present an alternative vision that will not destroy the economy, but that benefits everyone.

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Climate, UECNA

33 NGOs call for reduction impact of air transport

Posted on December 4, 2020November 17, 2025 by Admin3342

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Dec

Dear Presidents of the European Commission, European Council, and European Parliament, In the context of the current climate and health crises, we, the undersigned organisations, demand that action be taken in response to the newly released updated analysis of the non-CO2 climate impacts of aviation by the European Commission, as required by the 2017 ETS […]

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Video: The Elephant in the Room

Posted on November 25, 2020 by Admin3342

Dutch citizens have made a video about aviation policy in the Netherlands. The government is ignoring the public interests of residents living near Schiphol with regard to liveability, health, safety and climate. The policy is always aimed at the growth of the private airline company KLM. Schiphol is primarily a transfer airport.

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The impact of COVID-19 on aviation

Posted on November 1, 2020November 17, 2025 by Admin3342

The COVID-19 pandemic has hit the global economy and, in particular, large parts of the aviation industry to an unprecedented extent. Especially with a view to air traffic, there is controversial discussion whether and, if so, to what extent, in addition to the immediate consequences of the crisis, structural changes are triggered and / or […]

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Noise

Belgium must pay residents near airport

Posted on October 29, 2020December 21, 2025 by Admin3342

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Oct

The Belgian government must pay compensation to residents of Brussels Airport for ‘unlawful use of a runway’. About three hundred residents of villages near the airport had brought a lawsuit because they were inconvenienced by the use of runway 01 (formerly runway 02/20) and some of them now receive compensation of at least 30,000 euro. […]

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