Complain to Massport and 311 about airplane flyover noise

[desireearmfeldt]

Anyone else getting constant flyovers most days and (more annoying) 2-4 large, low, LOUD flyovers between 10:45 pm and midnight every night?

City of Somerville advises you to call Massport and also 311 to report your complaint: http://www.somervillema.gov/departments/programs/reporting-airplane-noise

Massport politely took my complaint and promised me a written report.  311 said "people should totally call us about issues, no one ever calls us!", politely took my complaint, and said that various elected officials (including Rosetti, Capuano and some third person I'm forgetting, possibly the mayor) have been trying to get this mitigated, but not necessarily to much effect.

Comments

[mlkaplan]

Please go here (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/bostonwestfairskies) for the Google group for Boston West Fair Skies, an organization fighting for a more equitable dispersal of flights departing Logan. In 2013, the FAA changed how flights are directed out of Logan, implementing the RNAV "highways in the sky" system, which resulted in planes flying in tight corridors over the same communities. We are affected by flights departing runway 33L, and while the recent runway construction brought increased attention, this has been a major problem for some time and continues to be so.

Send your complaints regularly to Massport using their online complaint system (http://tinyurl.com/pvnwgte), send correspondence to city, state and federal elected officials, and spread the word.