Airport perspectives - FAA Noise Policy Review

The FAA has funded a great deal of research related to the impacts of aviation noise on communities, which has led to the FAA undertaking a review of the Civil Aviation Noise Policy. However, before FAA determines any changes in noise policy, additional research is needed. Our paper discusses the work that ACI-NA - in the role of representing local, regional and state governing bodies that own and operate commercial airports in the United States and Canada - has undertaken, and the areas for further research that we identified in the ACI-NA comment letter submitted to the Federal Register in September 2023 in response to the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) Review of the Civil Aviation Noise Policy, (Docket ID No. FAA-2023-0855, 86 Fed. Reg. 26641 (May 1, 2023)). Our paper will discuss our comments, which include policy considerations, as well as specific areas that we recommend for future research, such as additional precision in the causes of annoyance from aviation noise, and why we think that additional research is needed.