Grievances about noise are closely correlated with the number of airport operations. Further, complaints weren’t simply coming from a handful of households but were spread out over hundreds of households.
Helicopters Drive Noise Complaints, by Christopher Gangemi, The East Hampton Star, April 23, 2026
“Airplane noise isn’t just an annoyance, it’s a real quality-of-life and public health issue,” said Suozzi.
Suozzi Urges FAA and DOT to Address Airplane Noise and Health Impacts in Communities Near JFK and LaGuardia, Press Release, Congressman Tom Suozzi, April 6, 2026
“Exposure to significant levels of noise pollution not only harms residents’ quality of life, but it can also have a significant impact on their health and wellbeing, including disrupting their sleep, harming children’s focus and outcomes, and can even be associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease.”
Gillen responds to Nassau residents upset by airplane noise, announces FAA audit, by Isabella Gallo & Gianna Costanzo, Long Island Press, July 30, 2025
“Their concern is getting planes in the air, not the quality of life for the people who live here,” Hempstead Supervisor Don Clavin said.
North Hempstead and Hempstead join lawsuit against FAA over low-flying airplanes. Here’s what the towns want, by Carolyn Gusoff, CBS News, February 24, 2025
“The problem is that the 26,000 aircraft and the individuals using them will say ‘We are just a small group. We are not relevant in terms of emissions.’ But everybody else will look at the small group and say, ‘Look these are the super-emitters, if they are not relevant, how can we be relevant?’”
Carbon pollution from high-flying rich in private jets soars, by Seth Borenstein, Associated Press, November 7, 2024
Almost 52 million people living within 20 kilometers of Europe’s busiest airports are at risk of poor health due to ultra fine particles released when jet fuel is burnt.
Can living near an airport make you ill?, by WION, June 25, 2024
As well as regulation to curb the most unnecessary emissions, Piketty suggests a “progressive carbon tax”, by which everyone would have a free emissions allowance covering ordinary needs, but activities beyond that – such as frequent holiday flights, large houses or large vehicles – would be taxed by larger increments, so that the most polluting activities were subject to “an enormous tax rate”.
Ban private jets to address climate crisis, says Thomas Piketty, by Fiona Harvey, The Guardian, November 22, 2023
In just one hour, “a single private jet can emit two tonnes of CO2”, and they frequently fly empty. For context, the average person in the EU emits the equivalent of 8.2 tonnes of CO2 over a whole year, said the NGO.
The real climate cost of private jets, by Harriet Marsden, The Week, June 16, 2023
Being exposed to any airplane noise, even low noise, impacted their sleep and caused most to get less than seven hours a night.
Living near an airport may be bad for your sleep, by CBS Boston, May 4, 2023
Private-jet owners also benefit from the use of nearly 3,000 airports around the U.S. that don’t receive scheduled commercial flights but still receive public funding, largely in the form of taxes and fuel surcharges on those commercial flights.
Private flights have boomed since the pandemic. Are taxpayers picking up the tab?, by Irina Ivanova, CBS News, May 2, 2023
Over all, complaints increased by 11,691, or 33 percent, over 2018, to almost 47,000. Complaints about seaplanes rose by 97 percent year over year, to 4,302, and complaints about helicopters were up by 5,830, or 31 percent.
Air Traffic, Noise Complaints Were Up, Up, Up in East Hampton, by Christopher Walsh, The East Hampton Star, July 16, 2020
NextGen is disrupting their lives with excessive noise and provoking concern over possible risks to health and property values.
GPS for Air Travel Came With Big Downsides: Noise, Then Lawsuits, by Amy Zipkin, The New York Times, November 18, 2019
“I thought, ‘Wow, I got myself my dream house.’ Until it turned into a nightmare,” she said. “What they’re doing to us is torture.”
They Moved Away From Airports, but Airplane Roar Followed Them To Long Island, by Elena Mejia Lutz, Transit New York, July 26, 2019
Jet noise, and quality of life in Nassau County, by Nakeem Grant, LI Herald, May 23, 2019
Filing airport noise complaints instantly, by FOX 5 New York, August 27, 2018
Advocacy group Plane Sense 4 Long Island teams up with Airnoise, by Nakeem Grant, LI Herald, August 2, 2018
Furious Hamptons residents say ‘Uber for helicopters’ makes living there ‘unbearable’, by Mary Hanbury, Business Insider, June 20, 2017