Between midnight and 5am on Saturday some 45 flights were due to arrive at Manchester, whereas at Heathrow no arrivals were scheduled
Colin Bessell pauses mid-sentence while the roar of a plane flying just a few hundred feet overhead passes. The 83-year-old has lived on Ringway Road in Wythenshawe, just yards from the end of Runway One at Manchester Airport, since the 1960s."In the summer you have the windows open so there's no point in noise insulation. If you're sat in the garden it just never stops. You can't talk to each other.
Only Runway One is used overnight and a 'night noise' policy is in place to restrict the number of flights and ensure the 'noise climate is much reduced from daytime levels', the airport says. Airlines that breach those restrictions can be fined. He suggests one solution would be to use Runway Two, to the south west of the airport, for overnight flights. "There's not as much housing over that side, just Styal village a bit further out," he said.But not everyone sees it that way. Fellow Ringway Road resident Ian Hawkridge worked in the operations department at the airport before retiring in 2005.
While he admits the noise can be an occasional nuisance, Mr Hawkridge insists measures such as triple glazing means he can't hear the planes when he's indoors.
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