Independent review recommends moving flight paths to alleviate noise concerns but disgruntled residents want solutions sooner
The Trax report said its recommendations would see more flights descend over Moreton Bay to lessen the impact on residents, reduce the frequency and concentration of flights over communities and “optimise the performance of the wider Brisbane airspace system”.
Brisbane Flight Path Community Alliance’s acting chair, Marcus Foth, described the report as “vindication” that “something can be done” to reduce aircraft noise impacts despite original claims from government regulators and the Brisbane Airport Corporation to the contrary. “When communities have been complaining to Air Services [Australia], usually they get these kinds of boilerplate responses with technical language that suggests that nothing can be done,” Foth said. “And here the Trax report is actually saying the opposite – there is a list of recommendations that are feasible.”
But he said the recommendations would not come soon rnough nor go far enough and that campaigners were now exploring legal options, public protests and shareholder activism to deliver solutions sooner and more comprehensively.“We’ll be targeting the owners of the Brisbane Airport Corporation,” he said, pointing out some Trax recommendations wouldn’t be operational until 2025.
“If the aviation stakeholders think that another three years of noise pollution torture is palatable, they are sadly mistaken.”Investment Corporation, which has a 25% stake in the airport. The Royal Schiphol Group, whose majority shareholder is the Dutch government, has a 19.6% stake in the Brisbane airport. Other major shareholders include First Sentier Investors and IFM Investors which manage pension, superannuation, university and foundation funds.
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