The addition of a third runway will change how aircraft operate at Melbourne Airport, affecting which runways are used and how aircraft noise is experienced across surrounding communities. With three runways in operation, there will be options for how arriving and departing aircraft are managed, creating opportunities to share aircraft noise.
To manage this, Melbourne Airport is required to develop a Noise Sharing and Airspace Concept Plan.
The Noise Sharing Plan is one approach to managing aircraft noise impacts and is required as a condition by the Federal Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, and Local Government for the construction of a third runway.
Melbourne Airport has appointed independent consultants Trax and GHD to create the Noise Sharing Plan.
Through carefully designed flight paths and runway operations, the Noise Sharing Plan aims to give communities periods of respite from aircraft noise
