Airports call for legislation

The UK's Airport Operators Association (AOA) is lobbying the government to implement drastic noise legislation backed by the Airports Council International Europe (ACI-E).

Speaking at the Royal Aeronautical Society in London last week, Mike Hodgkinson, chief executive of major UK airport operator BAA, said: "Through the AOA, we are calling for the phase-out of marginally compliant Chapter 3 aircraft by 2006, the complete phase-out of Chapter 3 aircraft by 2015, the introduction of a new Chapter 5 regime of at least 14db quieter than Chapter 3 by 2015, and by 2030 the introduction of a new Chapter 6 and the phase-out of Chapter 4 aircraft."

Source: Flight International