The Courier-Mail (no link) is running a #Brisbane airport propaganda line that a curfew would disrupt flights for a million people a year (8 flights per night*pax/flight*365). Using the same basis of calculation, and assuming 500k people under the flight path, they are disturbing about 100 million people a year. #auspol #greens #auspol
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John Quiggin 
A typo? 500k is about half the population of Brisbane under a flight path, so unlikely. How about 50k residing in suburbs under flight paths? Still over about 100k people disturbed incidents there per year at 1.46m.
A typo! 100m not 100k.
What disturbs most is the BNE monopoly gouging the customers, the airlines, the ratepayers, and the taxpayers. Lord Mayor Jim’s golden landing…
According to a company that makes electric aircraft engines, their noise energy is 1% of current ones. That could allow all-night operation for freight planes without noise nuisance.
https://aviationweek.com/aerospace/aircraft-propulsion/electric-aircraft-shows-dramatic-noise-reductions#:~:text=Flight%20tests%20of%20an%20aircraft%20converted%20to%20electric,for%20electric%20aircraft%20to%20reduce%20airport%20noise%20pollution.
500k is only one-fifth of the population of metropolitan Brisbane, not half.
I knew the Head of Public Affairs for Brisbane Airport Corporatioon when he was a student at Griffith University in the 1990s. His arithmetical abilities have remained unchanged after 30 years.
“The current metro area population of Brisbane in 2023 is 2,505,000” – Macrotrends.
So correct on that and ROFL on the other!
Metro Brisbane population is twice that of Brisbane – ABS 2020 estimated 2,560,720 vs. 2021 census 1,242,825.
Metro Brisbane includes ~8 LGAs and is 12 times the area of Brisbane – 15,842km^2 vs. 1,342.7km^2
Bordered approximately by Redland bay to Beenleigh, Beaudesert, Undullah, Grandchester, Marburg, Mt Glorious, Woodford, Bellthorpe, Beerburrum, Donneybrook, Bribie Island, Moreton Bay including all bay islands back to Redland Bay… Metropolitan Brisbane, Greater Brisbane, aint Brisbane. Proportinally far less of it is under BNE in/out bound flight paths than Brisbane, and higher altitudes ensure minimal to nil noise disturbance than occurs over the minority of Brisbane suburbs actually under flight paths. It is only in a yet smaller minority of Brisbane suburbs under flight paths and near to BNE where the noise level from planes at low altitudes causes significant disturbance to people … and also significantly to their NIMBY potential residential property valuations.