In all, airport officials logged 42,683 complaints about flights at National and Dulles in 2016, compared with just under 10,000 in 2015. Noise complaints also are increasing at Baltimore-Washington International Marshall Airport. They also note that more than half of the complaints filed came from just three individuals. One resident of Northwest Washington’s affluent Foxhall neighborhood filed 17,273 complaints about noise at National — an average of 47 a day. FAA officials say the change would allow planes to travel crowded skies safely at much closer distances.

Source: Washington Post September 16, 2017 22:06 UTC