AIRPORT NOISE MANAGEMENT REPORT 2nd QUARTER 2018

Airport Noise Management Report 1st Quarter 2018

The Airport Noise Management Report provides the 2nd Quarter 2018 summary of St. Louis Lambert International Airport’s operations and noise complaints. The data in this report is from Harris, Inc. and not from FAA Air Traffic. This report is illustrative of trends and distribution and should not be construed as official traffic counts.

2 ND Q UARTER Y EAR 2018 N O I S E C O M P L A I N T S

There were 14 noise complaints received in the 2nd Quarter 2018 as compared to the 7 noise complaints in the 2nd Quarter of 2017. The 14 complaints were from six communities. Two complainants stated that arri- val aircraft were low and disrupting TV signals. Another complainant had recently bought a house and won- dered why there were so many aircraft now over his house. Thunderstorms caused ATCT to turn aircraft af- ter immediately departing and there were complaints from residents living near the Airport that procedures were not being followed. All fourteen complaints were about day time operations ( 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.). Landings and take-offs (operations) during the day time hours accounted for 86.7% of the operations while 13.3% of the operations occurred during the night time period. Chart below shows number of complaints by zip code.

Quarters Zip Calls Zip Calls Zip Calls Zip Calls Zip Calls Zip Calls Zip Calls 1st Quarter 63031 3 63112 2 63141 1 ------2nd Quarter 63042 1 63044 3 63113 1 63114 1 63121 5 63130 1 63301 2 3rd Quarter ------4th Quarter ------

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R U N W AY I D E N T I F I C A T I O N The runways at St. Louis Lambert International Airport are: 12R/30L (11,019’x200’), 12L/30R (9,003’x150’), 11/29 (9,001’x150’), and 6/24 (7,607’x150’).

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St. Louis Lambert 29 6 International Airport 30R 30L Site 13 Site 8

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Benedetta Ferguson Lane, Villa Rosa Belfore Emerling North Hill Bellwood North Hills Bridgeton Bridgeton Auriesville Loganberry Cool Valley Country Club Kirkland Brotherton 5555 Athletic Hazelwood Bel-Ridge 5555 Pasadena Park Normandy Ferguson Site 1 Site 3 Site 5 Site 7 Site 8 Site 11 Site 12 Site 13

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O P E R A T I O N S B Y R U N W A Y

There were 49,128 operations recorded in the 2nd Quarter of 2018 as compared to 49,593 operations in the 2nd Quarter of 2017, a decrease of –0.9%. Commercial propeller, cargo narrow body, and cargo propeller reported fewer operations. The most utilized runway for known arrivals was Runway 30R (11,220) with 22.8% all operations. The most utilized runway for known departures was Runway 30L (8,493) with 17.3% of all op- erations. There were 45,553 (98.2%) operations in which the runway was identified and 575 operations (1.2%) where the runways were not identified.

6 ARR 27 11 DEP 28 Operations by Runway 24 DEP 44 2nd Quarter 2018 48,553 Operations with runway identified 6 DEP 54 49,128 Total Operations UNK ARR 230 ARR = Arrivals 29 ARR 327 DEP = Departures UNK DEP 345 24 ARR 500 30L ARR 992 30R DEP 1,123 11 ARR 2,152 12R DEP 2,834 12L ARR 3,434 29 DEP 3,478 12R ARR 5,614 12L DEP 8,233 30L DEP 8,493 30R ARR 11,220

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O P E R A T I O N S B Y A I R L I N E

The top twenty accounted for 89.8% of all operations. The top three airlines were with 41.1% of all operations, followed by (7.9%) and then by (7.1%). Eleven re- gional commercial passenger jet airlines that serve St. Louis Lambert International Airport were in the top twenty airlines and accounted for 17.9% of the 2nd Quarter 2018 operations. There were 71 Part 121 and Part 135 airlines that utilized St. Louis Lambert International Airport during this period. Part 121 airlines are commercial scheduled airlines and Part 135 airlines are charter and air taxi.

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Operations By 342 2nd Quarter 2018 (11) 360 Top Twenty Airlines Are Shown This represents 89.8% of all operations (49,128) Gamma Charters 372 1. Operated as Delta and American connection. Envoy (10) 409 2. Operated as United and American connection. 3. Operated as United and American connection. 4. Operated as Alaska, Delta, and United connnection. Air Georgian (9) 482 5. Operated as . 6. Operated as American connection. 7. Operated as United connection. Commutair (8) 566 8. Operated as United connection. 9. Operated as Air Canada Express connection. 10. Operated as American connection. ExpressJet (7) 588 11. Operated as United and American connection. PSA Airlines (6) 603

Netjets 690

Frontier 730

Endeavor (5) 1,114

Air Choice One 1,255

Sky West (4) 1,399

Trans States (3) 1,571

Republic (2) 1,747

GoJet (1) 1,918

Delta 2,390

Cape Air 3,503

American 3,913

Southwest 20,191

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O P E R A T I O N S B Y T Y P E O F S E R V I C E

In the 2nd Quarter of 2018, commercial passenger narrow body operations increased +4.2% from the same period in 2017. Commercial passenger regional jets increased +2.2% from the same period in 2017. The commercial passenger propeller operations are continuing to decrease in 2018. In the 1st Quarter 2018, op- erations decreased -23.9% and in the 2nd Quarter of 2018 the trend continued with a decrease of –38.3%. Cargo wide body operations increased +43.8%. General aviation business jets were up +0.9% from 2017. Military operations are filtered so most operations are not reported. Overall, operations from the 2nd Quarter 2018 were down –0.9%. from the 2nd Quarter in 2017.

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O P E R A T I O N S B Y T Y P E O F S E R V I C E

Commercial Passenger, Commercial Cargo, General Aviation, Military, and Unknown Operations are the five categories of operations. The Unknown Operations category include aircraft that were not identified by either the airline or aircraft equipment type, or both. The largest number of operations was Commercial Passen- gers with 89.8% . General Aviation was at 8.1%, Commercial Cargo had 1.9%, and the Unknown category represented 0.5% of the total operations. Reported Military operations were at 0.4%, however, military oper- ations are filtered and not all military operations are reported in the data.

Operations by Type of Service 2nd Quarter 2018

Commercial Cargo 923 Operations (1.9%)

General Aviation 3,967 Operations Commercial (8.1%) Passenger 44,093 Operations (89.8%) Unknown 234 Operations (0.5%)

Military 181 Operations (0.4%)

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O P E R A T I O N S B Y A I R C R A F T

Shown below are top twenty aircraft with the most operations for 2nd Quarter 2018. The Boeing 737-700 had the most operations at 14,708 (29.9%), followed by the Boeing 737-800 with 6,537 operations (13.3%) and the Cessna 402 Utiliner with 3,651 operations (7.4%). Six of the top ten aircraft at the Airport are operated by regional carriers. There were 164 different types of aircraft that landed at St. Louis Lambert International Air- port during this period according to Harris data*.

*The Harris Airport and Noise Management System (ANOMS) collects FAA air traffic data from the National Airspace System (NAS) and permanent noise monitoring data and correlates flight tracks, noise monitoring events and noise complaints. The ANOMS provides illustrative trends and should not be construed as official traffic counts.

Airbus 320 398 McDonnell Douglas MD90 432 Operations By Aircraft 2nd Quarter 2018 Boeing 737-800M 477 Top 20 Are Show n This represents 89.1% of all operations (49,128) Cessna Citation Excel 510

McDonnell Douglas MD88 692

Airbus 321 754

Embraer 45X 759

Embraer 75S 822

McDonnell Douglas MD83 877

Boeing 737-900 951

Canadair RJ 200 989

Cessna 208 Caravan 1,624

Airbus 319 1,638

Embraer 75L 1,923

Canadair RJ 900 1,993

Embraer 145 1,997

Canadair RJ 700 2,043

Cessna 402 Utiliner 3,651

Boeing 737-800 6,537

Boeing 737-700 14,708

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D I S T R I B U T I O N OF T R A F F I C

There were 49,128 operations recorded in the 2nd Quarter of 2018 compared to 49,595 operations in the 2nd Quarter of 2017, a decrease of -0.9%. Runway utilization for Runways 12L/30R and 12R/30L was impacted by ongoing taxiway construction on Taxiways Kilo and Sierra and the rehabilitation of Runway 12L-30R. The chart below shows the total percentages of use for known runways for this period. The most utilized runway for departures was Runway 30L (17.3%). The most utilized runway for arrivals was Runway 30R (22.8%). The crosswind runway 6-24 was the least used runway for this period. The Distribution of Traffic (Eastbound vs. Westbound ) for the 2nd Quarter 2018 was 45.9% eastbound and 54.1% westbound operations.

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P E A K D A Y O P E R A T I O N 2 N D Q U A R T E R 2 0 1 8 As reported from FAA Air Traffic

Busiest Day of the 2nd Quarter 2018 622 Operations June 15, 2018 As reported by FAA

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