Airplane Noise Complaints About Montreal Trudeau Airport Up 1,485% (June 30, 2019)

MONTREAL - Sept. 20, 2019 - PRLog -- MONTREAL-dB, the non-profit organization which operates the AEROplainte.ca app, recorded 5,325 airplane noise complaints in the first 6 months of 2019, compared to 336 complaints recorded and published by the Aéroport de Montréal (ADM), for the same period last year.  This represents an increase of 1,485% (as of June 30, 2019).

All complaints made with the AEROplainte app are sent by users to the ADM email complaint line at info@admtl.com and are recorded by the ADM. AEROplainte only tracks complaints from opt-in users, therefore, we expect that the number, that will eventually be published by the ADM, will be higher.

The AEROplainte app actually recorded a total 22,422 complaints from its 135 opt-in users in the first 6 months of 2019. While all complaints are valid, the data was normalized due to one data point which represents over 17,000 complaints, or 94 complaints a day. The ADM has not published any complaint data for 2019.

The ADM has historically under-reported its noise complaints because it only counted 1 complaint per person, per day. After the AEROplainte app was launched, the ADM changed its policy and has been reporting all complaint data since October 2018 as all other major airports in Canada.

More information and analysis of our work can be found by accessing our June 30th report at the following links:

English Version:  http://bit.ly/AEROplainte_6JUN2019
Version fraçaise: http://bit.ly/AEROplainte_30juin2019

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Montreal-dB.ca (formerly Montreal-Indivisible) is a Montreal based non-profit organization focused on analyzing and understanding noise pollution, specifically airplane noise pollution. All data captured by Montreal-dB is made available for non-commercial use to the public, as well as government and health institutions to support public policy decisions in the field of noise pollution in communities.

In the 4th quarter of 2019, Montreal-dB plans to establish a mini-noise observatory pilot project with its California based technology partner GetNOISY LLC, (www.getnoisy.io) in the borough of Ahuntsic-Cartierville of Montreal City. which will record the date, time, location and decibel level of airplanes and allow for the generation of a real-time sound map of plane noise over Montreal. See our partner's link to their product video at https://youtu.be/R7teTUCGLIw