Category Archives: UECNA

A fourth runway was opened at Frankfurt Airport on 21 October 2011, raising the noise level and emissions of pollutants in the Rhine-Main area to a new level. Thus, decreasing the quality of life and damaging the health of the people. The protest against this remains strong. ‘Bündnis der Bürgerinitiativen’ originated in the fight against […]

Courtesy of Reid, Geleijnse & Van Tol (translation with admission by Wouter Looman) The original cartoon was published in the leading Dutch newspaper NRC on April 5, 2018.

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The associations Notre Affaire à Tous, Sauvez le Beauvaisis and ADERA are today taking legal action before the Administrative Court of Amiens to stop the expansion of air traffic at Beauvais airport, the hub of the low-cost airline Ryanair. The legal action they are launching is the first in France to combine health (noise pollution, […]

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Executive summary Introduction Aircraft noise has been a sensitive issue for residents in areas near airports since jet aircraft became widely used in the 1960s and 1970s. It has resulted in a proliferation of local and national legislations and policies to manage aircraft noise over the intervening decades. Governments and industry have sought improvement […]

The European Court of Justice has torn up its earlier support for the €3.4 billion credit package supplied by the Dutch government to KLM during the coronavirus pandemic. It was Ryan Air who brought the case to court. In 2020, several airlines were on the verge of collapse because the outbreak of the coronavirus made […]