AIRPORT NOISE MANAGEMENT REPORT Year 2018

Airport Noise Management Report Year Quarter 2018

The Airport Noise Management Report provides the Year 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.

Y EAR 2018 N O I S E C O M P L A I N T S

There were 45 noise complaints received in both 2018 and 2017. The 45 complaints were from 14 communi- ties. Residents complained about too many aircraft using Runway 29 and not using other runways to spread out the noise. Because of severe thunderstorms in May and June, ATCT turned aircraft sharply after depart- ing and residents complained about aircraft not following procedures. Complainants to the east of the Airport complained about aircraft disrupting and blocking TV signals in the morning. Another complainant had re- cently bought a house and wondered why there were so many aircraft now over his house. An anonymous resident complained about the helicopters that accompanied the President’s visit to St. Louis. Residents complained about military touch and goes and departures of squadrons waking children taking naps. Thirty nine complaints were about day time operations (7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.) and six complaints were about night-time operations (10 p.m. to 7 a.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 63033- 2 63043 2 63044 6 63109 1 63114 1 63121 3 63134 1 4th Quarter 63043 1 63044 4 63121 3 63146 1 ------

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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’).

P E R M A N E N T N O I S E M O N I T O R I N G S I T E S

Site 3 Site 5

Site 1

Site 13

Site 8

Site 12

Site 7 Site 11

The DNL (Day-Night average sound level) metric describes the total noise exposure during a given period. In computing DNL, an extra weighting of 10dB is assigned to any sound levels occurring between the hours of 10 pm to 7 am. The FAA has established 65 DNL as the threshold above which aircraft noise is considered to be incompatible with residential use. The eight noise monitoring sites are recording levels lower than 65 DNL.

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 193,005 operations recorded in 2018 as compared to 194,432 operations in 2017, a decrease of –0.7% according to Harris data* . Runway 30R was the most utilized runway for arrivals in 2017 (21.9%) and in 2018 (21.3%). Runway 30L was the most utilized runway for known departures in 2018 (18.6%) and in 2017 (20.4%). In 2018, Runway 12L/30R was closed for a part of July and August due to runway recon- struction. In 2018, there were 192,009 (99.4%) operations in which the runway was identified and 996 operations (0.6%) where the runways were not identified.

*The Harris Airport Noise and Operation 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.

Operations by Runway 2017-2018

11 DEP 6 ARR 6 DEP 24 DEP UNK ARR UNK DEP 29 ARR 24 ARR 30R DEP 30L ARR 11 ARR 12R ARR 29 DEP 12L DEP 12L ARR 12R DEP 30L DEP 30R ARR

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2018 2017

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

The 2018 top twenty airlines including major carriers, regional carriers, and general aviation business jet aircraft accounted for 89.7% of all operations. Shown in the chart below are the top 18 Part 121 airlines and the top two general aviation business jets (Gamma Jets and Netjets) for 2018 and 2017. The 2018 top twenty includes eleven regional commercial passenger jet airlines. Regional jets accounted for 18.4% of the operations in 2018 and 21.2% of the operations in 2017. Southwest and Frontier at St Louis Lambert Airport are the only major airlines that are not partnered with the regional airlines.

There were 92 Part 121 and Part 135 airlines that utilized St. Louis Lambert International Airport during this period. Part 121 airlines are commercial scheduled airlines with more than 30 seats and Part 135 airlines are planes with less than 30 seats.

Operations by Airlines in 2017 and 2018

United Airlines Gamma Charters Regional partners in 2018 with: 1. United and Delta connection Mesa Airlines (11) 2. American and United connection 3. American, United and Delta connection Commutair (10) 4. Alaska, Delta, American and United Air Georgian (9) connection 5. Delta connection Envoy (8) 6. United connection 7. American connection Netjets 8. American connection PSA Airlines (7) 9. Air Canada Express connection 10. United connection Frontier 11. United and American connection ExpressJet (6) Endeavor (5) Sky West (4) Air Choice One Republic (3) Trans States (2) GoJet (1) Delta Cape Air American Southwest

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

In 2018, commercial passenger narrow body operations increased +3.9% from 2017 operations. Commercial passenger regional jets increased +2.3% from 2017. The commercial passenger propeller operations de- creased –31.8% in 2018. Cargo wide body operations increased +29.8%. General aviation business jets were up +2.3 from 2017. Military operations are filtered so most operations are not reported. Overall, operations in 2018, as reported in the Harris data* were down –0.7% from 2017.

Operations by Category of Service 2017 -2018 996 UNKNOWN 1094

554 2018 (193,005) 2017 (194,432) MILITARY 1096

150 GA HELICOPTER 275 2502 GA PROPELLER 2025 11672 GA BUSINESS JETS 11229

508 CARGO PROPELLER 589 1557 CARGO NARROW BODY 1920 1676 CARGO WIDE BODY 1291

20672 COMMERCIAL PASSENGER PROPELLER 27253 44080 COMMERCIAL PASSENGER REGIONAL JETS 43088 108638 COMMERCIAL PASSENGER NARROW BODY 104551 0 COMMERCIAL PASSENGER WIDE BODY 21 0 20000 40000 60000 80000 100000 120000

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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, and Military are the four categories of operations. The Harris data* also includes unknown operations category for aircraft that were not identified by ei- ther the airline or aircraft equipment type, or both. In 2018, the largest number of operations was Commercial Passengers with 89.8% as compared to 89.9% for 2017. General Aviation had 7.4% of reported operations in 2018 compared to the 7.0% in 2017. Commercial cargo 1.9% compared to 2.0% in 2017. Reported Mili- tary operations were at 0.3% in 2018, however, military operations are filtered and not all military operations are reported in the data.

COMPARISON OF 2017 AND 2018 OPERATIONS

2017 2018

174,913

173,410

14,324

13,529

3,800

3,721

1,094 554

COMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL CARGO GENERAL AVIATION MILITARY PASSENGER

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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 operating at St. Louis Lambert Airport in 2018 and 2017. In 2018, the Boeing 737-700 operations increased by 16.7% and the Boeing 737-800 increased by 14.2% from 2017. In 2018, the Boeing 737-800M increased from 66 operations to 1,712, almost 2500%. Six of the top ten aircraft at the Airport are operated by regional carriers. There were 233 different types of aircraft that landed at St. Louis Lambert International Airport during this period according to Harris data*.

Operations by Aircraft 2017-2018 1640 AIRBUS 320 1259 BOEING 737-800M 1712 66 2018 2017 1984 CESSNA CITATION EXCEL 2099 2188 MCDONNELL DOUGLAS MD90 3026 2433 BOEING 737-900 2016 2633 AIRBUS 321 2956 2756 MCDONNELL DOUGLAS MD 88 2011 2927 EMBRAER 75S 2145 3015 EMBRAER 45X 2431 3333 MCDONNELL DOUGLAS MD 83 4033 4058 CANADAIR RJ 200 3273 6580 AIRBUS 319 6805 6790 CESSNA 208 CARAVAN 8184 7292 EMBRAER75L 6310 7564 CANADAIR RJ 900 5829 8408 CANADAIR RJ 700 10109 9138 EMBRAER 145 11424 14526 CESSNA 402 UTILINER 19121 24732 BOEING 737-800 21662 57704 BOEING 737-700 49459 0 10000 20000 30000 40000 50000 60000 70000

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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 193,005 operations recorded in 2018 compared to 194,432 operations in 2017, a decrease of 0.7%. 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 during the summer and fall months. The chart below shows the total percentages of use for known runways for this period. The most utilized runway for departures was Runway 30L (18.8%). The most utilized runway for arrivals was Runway 30R (21.5%). The crosswind runway 6-24 was the least used runway for this period. The Distribution of Traffic (Eastbound vs. Westbound ) for 2018 was 45.5% eastbound and 54.5% westbound operations.

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Peak Day Operation of 2018 622 Operations June 15, 2018 As reported by FAA

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