Planning permission to increase the number of night time flights operating at Dublin Airport has been approved by Fingal County Council.
The decision allows new rules around night time flights to come into effect at Dublin Airport, as put forward by the Aircraft Noise Competent Authority (ANCA). The airport will be able to increase the level of night time noise up until 2025, when measures slowly encouraging a reduction in the noise will then kick in.
Current rules state that the average number of night time aircraft movements at the airport shall not exceed 65 per night (between 2300 hours and 0700 hours) when measured over the 92 day modelling period. These will be revoked and replaced with an annual Noise Quota Scheme (NQS) with an annual limit of 16,260 between 23:00 and 06:59 (inclusive, local time) with noise-related limits on the aircraft permitted to operate at night, with the following conditions enforced:
