The document decides that the City Council urges the Government to establish “a period without regular flights between midnight and 5 a.m. at Lisbon airport.”
The Municipal Assembly of Loures, in the Lisbon district, approved a motion by the Left Bloc demanding the limitation of night flights at the Humberto Delgado airport, the party announced on Friday.
HE The motion was approved by a majority at the last meeting of the body, held on Thursday, with the favorable votes of the PS, CDU, PSD, Liberal Initiative, PAN (People-Animals-Nature) and the abstention of Chega.
The document decides that the Municipal Council of Loures, chaired by the socialist Ricardo Leão, urges the Government to establish “a period without scheduled flights between 0:00 and 05:00 at Humberto Delgado Airport.”
The motion also demands that “noise legislation be enforced, starting with the establishment of a annual limit on flights and the progressive extension of the periodwhere a total ban on air movements is in effect between 00:30 and 05:00 hours.”
According to the Zero association, which counted all passenger flights that took off and landed between August 12 and 25, between 11pm and 7amat the Humberto Delgado Airport, were 139 air movements detected.
“In total, 115 flights were carried out in excess of the legal limit, which significantly aggravates the noise pollution caused by the planes, affecting the lives of all the people who live and work in the municipality of Loures and in other municipalities close to the airport,” the blockers state. emphasize.
The document will now be sent to the Ministry of Infrastructure and Housing, the National Civil Aviation Authority (ANAC) and the environmentalist Association Cero, among other entities.
Humberto Delgado Airport is located on land belonging to the municipalities of Lisbon and Loures.
Source: Observadora
