Photo credit: Paul Hudson licensed under CC BY 2.0
by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition
Many of us frequent flyers use Heathrow (airport code LHR) as an entry point to Europe, especially those of us from the west coast.
In 2017, LHR ranked was the seventh busiest airport in the world, with 78 million passengers passing through it.
LHR just released noise rankings for the airlines using its space. There are a number of rankings–noise per passenger seat and noise ratings by airplanes flown are two–but what is probably the most important noise rating, number of noisy flights per airline or average noise rating per flight for each airline, is missing.
Maybe an American airport or the Federal Aviation Administration can lead the way on these measurements in the U.S.?
Just a thought!
