Needless to say the NIMBYS and tree-huggers threw in their two pen'orth
They don't care
what you tell them, they go there to winge and moan and go on and on about the poxy enviroment as if anyone who works at or in an airport is some sort of anti-christ.
I know this from personal experience. My brother is one of the above, you know, bird watcher, recycles
everything, keeps the heating off in his house to save energy etc etc! I'm a petrol head and a pilot who doesn't recycle anything and has big bonfires in his garden - you can imagine the arguments.
BALPA produced a great booklet on the enviroment and aviation, including some great independant pieces of infomation, facts and figures on the negliagable effects of aviation on the enviroment.
Jet2's aircraft are too loud ey? Give us a longer runway and we can de-rate the take off power more. Someone ought to go into LBA and do a few circuits in a BAC 1-11, 707 or even an old 737-200 to show what a 'loud' aeroplane actually sounds like!!
Sorry - rant over!