Update 9

Phase two engagement

With our next round of engagement sessions coming up soon, we’ve received lots of questions and seen lots of discussion in social media. It is great to see so much discussion around the options and we look forward to seeing people at the sessions.

We’ve gathered some quick answers to the most common questions. Feel free to share this information in your community.


The mailout

  1. A community notice on the Noise Action Plan for Brisbane was delivered to all residential letterboxes in Brisbane, Redlands, and Logan, as well as parts of Ipswich, Moreton Bay and Gold Coast.
  2. The mailout was requested by community members to raise awareness of the program for residents who may not access online information sources or broadcast media.
  3. The notice was printed on 100% recycled paper.


Night-time over land departures – north

  1. Noise sharing options do not increase the capacity of the airport and will not enable more aircraft to fly over communities. The sharing options are proposed as an alternative to a current path, not as an additional path that would operate at the same time.
  2. The sharing options proposed do not put more flights over communities to the north-west. The current volume of traffic would be shared across the various flight paths between the airport and the waypoint to provide respite for communities subject to the current flight path operations. One or more of the options could be progressed for this purpose.
  3. The WACKO waypoint community would not get more flights over them if any of these options were implemented – it would be the same amount of traffic.
  4. We are currently working on other options for noise sharing on arrivals as well as departures and will share these proposals later in the program.


Session locations

  1. Drop-in session locations have been selected based on a review of the proposed options against current operations, to identify communities that would likely experience a noticeable change if any of the options were implemented. Different communities will be the focus during each stage, depending on the option being considered.
  2. Subject to venue availability, we have attempted to hold sessions in these key locations or within a 10 to 15 minute drive.
  3. It is not possible to have a session in every community, but sessions should be accessible to all, and we have online sessions for those who cannot attend in person.


New on WebTrak

Live now: Temporary noise monitors have been installed in Brookfield and Upper Brookfield. A completion report will be made available to the community once we have three months of data captured. The temporary monitors are located at:

  • Jones Rd, Brookfield (to capture aircraft departure operations - see green aircraft tracking information in the image below)
  • Carbine Rd, Upper Brookfield (to capture aircraft arrival operations - see blue aircraft tracking information in the image below).

Live now: The area covered by WebTrak has been expanded to 80km distance from Brisbane Airport (up from 40km) and the delay to view operations reduced to 15 minutes (down from 40 minutes); work is continuing with our supplier to reduce the time delay further and expand these updates to our other airports on WebTrak.