So this "Point Merge System" absolutely guarantees the same villages and houses will always get hit by the traffic?
From merge point and in, correct. But another part of the system is allso a new noise abatement framework for the airport, and traffic will join final at 5 instead of 3K feet in the south. In the north 5 instead of 4 K. Allso aircraft will spend less time at those altitudes than before if they manage to use the predictable CDA from the "fan" and in to IF.
We have seen some crews that dive down to the min alt restrictions on the procedure waaay out, and then birch and whine about having to fly level for so long. But, more and more crews get it right.
The biggest difference is perhaps the departures. For jet aircraft I think I'm right in saying that 99%, of all jet departures got unrestricted climb to cruise on the evening shift yesterday, and that is quite an improvement. (No SID/STAR crossings with level offs, as well as segregated arr/dep routings on the enroute sectors)
The few level offs that happened was due to controllers forgetting to give climb/change freq. in a timely fashion.
(Sorry Air France!)