{"id":169450,"date":"2025-06-09T05:28:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T05:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/169450\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T05:28:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T05:28:11","slug":"dutch-brawl-over-airport-noise-sets-tone-for-rest-of-europe-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/169450\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutch brawl over airport noise sets tone for rest of Europe \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Prime Minister Mark Rutte\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/geert-wilders-amsterdam-schiphol-airport-gets-a-post-election-boost\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tried<\/a>\u00a0to solve the problem in 2023 by imposing a cap of 460,000 flights. But that sparked a backlash from both the EU and the U.S., and his government announced a hurried retreat after failing to get the Commission&#8217;s approval. <\/p>\n<p>Tech fixes<\/p>\n<p>The industry feels the new proposed limit of 478,000 is far too low, and took the matter to court. Rather than limit flights, it argues that advances in airplane and engine design will do enough to cut noise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government says, \u2018We want 20 percent less noise.\u2019 The aircraft that we have bought, and that [manufacturers] are going to produce, [are] 20 percent less noisy. So we don&#8217;t understand why there&#8217;s an issue and why there has to be reduction in slots,\u201d Air France-KLM&#8217;s Smith said.<\/p>\n<p>Michael O&#8217;Leary, CEO of Ryanair, which operates only a few routes from Schiphol, is even more optimistic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe new aircraft we&#8217;re buying from Boeing \u2026 [are] 50 percent quieter\u201d than previous models, he said.<\/p>\n<p>But Roberto Merino-Martinez, an aeronautics and aircraft noise researcher at the Delft University of Technology, said such a reduction won&#8217;t halve the total sound emitted by planes that can be heard by the human ear, and that promising a percentage reduction is often a &#8220;red flag,&#8221; given the logarithmic nature of noise measurement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Prime Minister Mark Rutte\u00a0tried\u00a0to solve the problem in 2023 by imposing a cap of 460,000 flights. But&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[18991,22318,4328,1306,30,2000,299,5187,1780,11582,2992,856,53,3053,70739],"class_list":{"0":"post-169450","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-airlines","9":"tag-airplanes","10":"tag-airports","11":"tag-aviation","12":"tag-courts","13":"tag-eu","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-european","16":"tag-geert-wilders","17":"tag-lobbying","18":"tag-mark-rutte","19":"tag-pollution","20":"tag-technology","21":"tag-the-netherlands","22":"tag-willem-alexander"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114651758872322171","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}