Six months ago, as part of its efforts to “enhance the safety and efficiency” of the nation's airspace, the FAA threw several thousand Newport Beach residents under the bus.
Thanks to a new initiative – So Cal Metroplex, launched in March/April 2017 – John Wayne Airport departures are now allowed to begin turning left shortly after leaving the runway, putting them squarely over homes, schools, daycare centers, shopping malls and churches adjacent to Upper Newport Bay.
In its environmental assessment of Metroplex, the FAA stated the changes would cause “no significant impacts” to surrounding areas. However, as thousands of Newport Beach residents know all too well, the impacts have been horrendous, with debilitating increases in noise and jet fuel pollution, decreases in property values, and concurrent threats to our health, our safety, our environment and our peace of mind.
The City of Newport Beach has challenged the FAA's “no significant impacts” finding, and has been negotiating with the FAA since 2013 to develop a departure path that would keep planes over the water, not our homes. Neither effort has produced concrete results and more and more departing planes are shortcutting over our neighborhoods rather than staying over the bay.
Commercial airlines currently flying out of JWA include Alaska, American, Delta, Frontier, Southwest, United and WestJet; many no longer use the voluntary noise abatement measures that previously mitigated the roar of departing planes. However all of these airlines – without needing FAA approval – are free to re-implement these procedures and/or take off at higher altitudes if they choose to do so.
We ask the FAA, the airlines, and our city and county officials to do the right thing and take whatever measures are necessary – separately or in tandem – to get the planes back over the water where they belong. Specifically:
To the FAA: Admit that your “no significant impacts” finding is simply not true. Move the first left turn after takeoff to its previous location further down the bay and adjust departure routes so planes are over the water – not our homes – until reaching the coastline.
To the airlines: Voluntarily implement previously successful noise abatement procedures for all planes departing John Wayne Airport.
To the city/county: Stop telling us to “be patient” while you negotiate/mediate with the FAA and show us some concrete results of the work we are told is being done on our behalf.
Newport Beach residents stand united in demanding that the FAA, the airlines and city/county officials acknowledge our concerns and take the immediate and concrete steps required to restore our peace of mind and quality of life.
Updates
Reached 1,000 supporters
September 17, 2017
Reached 100 supporters
September 6, 2017
September 4, 2017
The FAA bureaucrats are banking on us giving up while they profit from these deafening flight paths. Push this petition to everyone you know right now because we need to hit one hundred signatures before they think they can ignore us another day.
800 Comments
How could tax paying homeowners and businesses be cast aside by airlines and FAA?!! This was a beach, fishing, and surf community long before it became an international airport. Where has all the consideration for the community and its well-being gone?
We moved from Boston 4 years ago and I cannot believe how loud and Dirty the planes have become!! Our windowsills doors and everything outside is covered with an oily black type substance. It makes me wonder what it is doing to our lungs!! Not good. ☹️
Admit that your “no significant impacts” finding is simply not true. Move the first left turn after takeoff to its previous location further down the bay and adjust departure routes so planes are over the water – not our homes – until reaching the coastline.
Please do whatever you can. My toddler is ingesting far too many carcinogens from the jet fuel dust at present. Also, the noise is so loud we can't talk outside and even have trouble hearing eachother inside the house while the planes are taking off.
No attem[t is being made ,by most of the planes,to climb or stay on course. Instead most go roaring over our backyard makeing it impossible to hear anything except the roar of engines. A;so many planes seem to be coming IN for landing AFTER 10 P.,M.
keep planes away from homes
The impact of the changes are easily measurable. The FAACis wrong.
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Six months ago, as part of its efforts to “enhance the safety and efficiency” of the nation's airspace, the FAA threw several thousand Newport Beach residents under the bus.
Thanks to a new initiative – So Cal Metroplex, launched in March/April 2017 – John Wayne Airport departures are now allowed to begin turning left shortly after leaving the runway, putting them squarely over homes, schools, daycare centers, shopping malls and churches adjacent to Upper Newport Bay.
In its environmental assessment of Metroplex, the FAA stated the changes would cause “no significant impacts” to surrounding areas. However, as thousands of Newport Beach residents know all too well, the impacts have been horrendous, with debilitating increases in noise and jet fuel pollution, decreases in property values, and concurrent threats to our health, our safety, our environment and our peace of mind.
The City of Newport Beach has challenged the FAA's “no significant impacts” finding, and has been negotiating with the FAA since 2013 to develop a departure path that would keep planes over the water, not our homes. Neither effort has produced concrete results and more and more departing planes are shortcutting over our neighborhoods rather than staying over the bay.
Commercial airlines currently flying out of JWA include Alaska, American, Delta, Frontier, Southwest, United and WestJet; many no longer use the voluntary noise abatement measures that previously mitigated the roar of departing planes. However all of these airlines – without needing FAA approval – are free to re-implement these procedures and/or take off at higher altitudes if they choose to do so.
We ask the FAA, the airlines, and our city and county officials to do the right thing and take whatever measures are necessary – separately or in tandem – to get the planes back over the water where they belong. Specifically:
To the FAA: Admit that your “no significant impacts” finding is simply not true. Move the first left turn after takeoff to its previous location further down the bay and adjust departure routes so planes are over the water – not our homes – until reaching the coastline.
To the airlines: Voluntarily implement previously successful noise abatement procedures for all planes departing John Wayne Airport.
To the city/county: Stop telling us to “be patient” while you negotiate/mediate with the FAA and show us some concrete results of the work we are told is being done on our behalf.
Newport Beach residents stand united in demanding that the FAA, the airlines and city/county officials acknowledge our concerns and take the immediate and concrete steps required to restore our peace of mind and quality of life.
Updates
Reached 1,000 supporters
September 17, 2017
Reached 100 supporters
September 6, 2017
September 4, 2017
The FAA bureaucrats are banking on us giving up while they profit from these deafening flight paths. Push this petition to everyone you know right now because we need to hit one hundred signatures before they think they can ignore us another day.
800 Comments
In addition to the noise, I am suffering the smell of gasoline from the aircraft stuck in the back of nostril bad 24/7 since the places started flying over our community (The Bluffs in Newport Beach), which causes me to suffer headaches.
How could tax paying homeowners and businesses be cast aside by airlines and FAA?!! This was a beach, fishing, and surf community long before it became an international airport. Where has all the consideration for the community and its well-being gone?
We moved from Boston 4 years ago and I cannot believe how loud and Dirty the planes have become!! Our windowsills doors and everything outside is covered with an oily black type substance. It makes me wonder what it is doing to our lungs!! Not good. ☹️
Admit that your “no significant impacts” finding is simply not true. Move the first left turn after takeoff to its previous location further down the bay and adjust departure routes so planes are over the water – not our homes – until reaching the coastline.
Please do whatever you can. My toddler is ingesting far too many carcinogens from the jet fuel dust at present. Also, the noise is so loud we can't talk outside and even have trouble hearing eachother inside the house while the planes are taking off.
No attem[t is being made ,by most of the planes,to climb or stay on course. Instead most go roaring over our backyard makeing it impossible to hear anything except the roar of engines. A;so many planes seem to be coming IN for landing AFTER 10 P.,M.
keep planes away from homes
The impact of the changes are easily measurable. The FAACis wrong.
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In addition to the noise, I am suffering the smell of gasoline from the aircraft stuck in the back of nostril bad 24/7 since the places started flying over our community (The Bluffs in Newport Beach), which causes me to suffer headaches.