Flight Path Noise passes 100 airports

Flight Path Noise now covers more than 100 airports. Yesterday we added 39, which took the total to exactly 100, and this morning three more in Australia and New Zealand bring it to 103 airports in 49 countries.

As with our last expansion, we picked cities where the airport sits close to where people live.

Close-in airports in multi-airport cities

Several of these cities have more than one airport. Where they do, we chose the one nearest the centre, because that is usually the one more people hear at home. So New York is LaGuardia, Chicago is Midway, Dallas is Love Field, Houston is Hobby, Los Angeles is Hollywood Burbank, London is London City, Seoul is Gimpo, Osaka is Itami and Medellín is Olaya Herrera. Each page is named after the airport it covers, so check the heading if you are looking for a particular one.

The 42 new airports

United States:

• New York LaGuardia, Chicago Midway, Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Dallas Love Field, Atlanta, Salt Lake City, Nashville, Charlotte, Houston Hobby, Portland and Hollywood Burbank

Europe:

• London City, Frankfurt, Zurich, Manchester, Edinburgh, Brussels, Vienna, Budapest, Prague, Vilnius and Riga

Asia:

• Hong Kong, Singapore Changi, Seoul Gimpo, Osaka Itami, Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, Kathmandu and Delhi

Latin America:

• Lima, Medellín Olaya Herrera and Santiago

Middle East and Africa:

• Dubai, Doha and Cape Town

Australia and New Zealand:

• Brisbane, Perth, Auckland, Christchurch and Western Sydney

More of Australia and New Zealand

Brisbane and Perth arrived yesterday, and all three of today’s additions are in Australia and New Zealand. Auckland Airport lies about 21 km south of the city centre, and Christchurch about 12 km from the city. With Wellington already on the map, all three of New Zealand’s main cities are now covered.

Western Sydney International (Nancy-Bird Walton) Airport at Badgerys Creek is a new airport that has not yet opened to passenger flights. We have put its page up ahead of opening so that its traffic is recorded from the start. Until regular services start, expect its map and stats to show very little traffic. Its search bar favours addresses around Penrith, Liverpool and Campbelltown, where the people most likely to hear it live. Sydney Kingsford Smith keeps its own page at /sydney/.

What a new airport page shows

Every new airport has the same map as the rest of the site: live aircraft, the noise heatmap, route density and recorded flight paths, plus address search, saved pins and side-by-side comparison. The stats dashboard below the map shows flights per day and the busiest and quietest hours.

Each map starts from the day we add the airport and builds up as flights are recorded, so the first few days give only a rough picture. Noise levels everywhere on the site are estimates calculated from recorded flight tracks rather than microphone readings, and they are most useful for comparing one street with another.