Originally Posted by
WHBM
Interesting the proposal to allow only the A220/E2 on Saturday afternoons. These P&W-powered types are very notably quieter than the E190 when climbing out; the latter is also far noisier than the BAe146 which started the jet operations here, and one wonders how the transition between these two types was allowed. I believe the last 146/RJ operation at LCY was just a couple of months ago, a Jota football team charter just before the airline ceased operations.
Agreed, the Embraer had a marked increase in noise levels when compared to the 146, the Fokker 70 and A318 were even noisier.