Fair Allocation in Runways (FAiR) Coalition Launches its Save Our Sleep (SOS) Campaign

***The FAiR Coalition launches its Save Our Sleep (SOS) Campaign. Read below for the announcement just sent out. FAiR is the leading citizen-led voice for our communities impacted by O'Hare noise. FAiR's most recent accomplishment is the reduction of nighttime noise due to the first-ever O'Hare Fly Quiet program. More about FAiR at www.fairchicago.org. Join with your fellow citizens and make your voices heard! Questions? Please ask Jac Charlier at Jac.Charlier@gmail.com***

Greeting FAiR members and supporters,

Winter is coming and although we are closing our windows, the roar of the jets overhead keep coming. Complaints have skyrocketed in the last three years after the city shifted traffic from the older diagonal runways to new parallel east-west runways. This has significantly concentrated more traffic over the northwest side of the city of Chicago as well as suburban communities east and west of the airport. We know this all too well.

Many of you are aware of the O’Hare "Fly Quiet" test phase. Fly Quiet is a six-month test in collaboration with the Chicago Department of Aviation (CDA) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to make greater use of diagonal runways, shifting noise away from suburbs east and west of the airport and northwest side Chicago neighborhoods. Under the plan, runways (including diagonal runway 15 / 33) are rotated on a week-to-week basis for nighttime travel (10:30 p.m. to 5:30 a.m.). This program is set to expire December 2016. FAiR contends that Fly Quiet in its revised form should continue into 2017 with no interruption.

FAiR is proud to initiate the Save Our Sleep (SOS) campaign. In the coming weeks, FAiR will be pushing for the permanent institution of Fly Quiet. Further, FAiR will be asking our elected representatives, CDA, FAA and O’Hare Noise Compatibility Commission (ONCC) to enact Fly Quiet as a mandatory (rather than voluntary) program with the utilization of diagonal runway 15 / 33 as part of the permanent rotation.

You will be receiving email updates and action alerts as part of the SOS campaign…..please keep an eye out for them.

Thanks to you all and together we are stronger!

From,
Fair Leadership