Dublin Airport got 12,272 noise complaints last year from just one person

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  1. Ongar? He lives in Ongar and complains about airplane noise?

    My in laws live in Clonsilla, walking distance to Ongar.

    You don’t hear much, if any, plane noises over there. And even when it happens it’s rare.

    This guy either has super hearing or as has been established in this thread: no life.

  2. And therein lies the issue with building anything in Ireland, the moaners are always the loudest.

  3. To be honest, I can only feel sorry for them if there’s some mental illness at work there.

    Very few flights for a good chunk of last year as well, noise couldn’t have been that bad.

  4. The sort of twat that moves in beside a racetrack and then complains about the noise and gets it basically shut down with compliance clauses.

  5. Harassment. The airport have full rights to sue them. Or just play them at their own game, pay some one to create a little program that sends out an email offering discounts and special offers every hour 24/7 365 days a year

  6. That’s on average 33 complaints per day. Assuming you can log a complaint during working hours (9-5, 7 days a week) that’s 4 complaints an hour 🥲.

  7. Didn’t this happen in 2020 as well? I remember hearing the same thing before. This same person seems to be doing this for ages.

    Edit: yes, if I read the article it does clearly state that the same individual did it in 2020.

  8. My aunt, uncle and cousins have lived under one of thr main plane routes into and out of Boston Airport for decades. I remember when they were debating buying the place.

    Like, after some time, you don’t even hear the planes. It becomes white noise to you. Just like cars in the city, seagulls in Dublin or country noises!

    This dude is pissed about something, but I doubt it’s the actual noise.

  9. DAA should inform the individual that they can only accept complaints by registered post. I’m saying individual because most of the posters assume it’s a man!!

  10. Stayed in a small village in Bavaria recently, which surprised me as been very religious. To the point that the village church we were staying beside had a bell which went off every 15 mins all day/night and went absolutely buck mad at 6am (to traditionally wake up the locals for work) and 6pm (to tell them to stop working). Didn’t sleep a wink the first night but honestly slept straight through after that, so yes unless you become fixated on noises your brain will very quickly filter them out.

  11. I lived in Hounslow in London not far from Heathrow , the planes literally flew over my house ,
    After awhile you block it out, plus alcohol helped.

  12. Some person has essentially been complaining every hour for a whole year. So in reality it’s like 2/3 an hour cos of sleep etc They are their own robo caller, it’s a full time job.

  13. My favourite paragraphs:

    > Before that DAA was receiving around 1,500 noise complaints a year, but last year’s total was 13,569. However, the figure would have been just 1,296 if cases filed by the serial complainant were excluded.

    > As the number of flights has returned to near pre-pandemic levels in 2022, the same individual has already filed a total of 5,276 complaints in the first three months of this year — a daily average of 59 cases — out of a total of 5,573 logged by DAA.

    **59** reports per day, on average! FFS!

  14. I live under flight paths (way worse than Ongar) and am a very light sleeper so hate the night/early morning departures. Never even knew you can complain about this though, it’s a fricking airport.

  15. I work at one of the big mobile companies in Ireland, in a call centre, there’s one guy, who calls up, multiple times a day.

    Everyone in the call centre knows him, we call him int mins guy, he will act like he’s never spoke to us before, and put on accents sometimes, always has his number hidden.

    He’s a prepay customer and won’t give up account details or names, but for over 2 years he’s been ringing multiple times daily about how our plans differ to other companies in Ireland. Trying to advise us of changes our company needs to make to stay competitive.

    He may have been calling for a lot longer than 2 years, but over 2 years is just from me speaking to older agents who got calls from him back then.

    I bet he has more than 1000s of calls with us.

  16. I misread the title for a second and thought the complaints were *about* one person, thought maybe a rogue pilot was doing donuts on the runway or blasting some tunes out the cockpit window

  17. I guess the only excuse he has is if he has been living near the airport since 1940….ya know since It was built….otherwise its his own fault for living near it. Gobshite

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