Has the airport been responsible for increasing pollution in the past 20 years?
The number and type of flights from the airport have not changed significantly in the past 20 years and are not expected to rise in the future. Increasing local pollutant levels are therefore due entirely to other sources, notably the relentless rise in road traffic. Airport strategic plans aim to attract small high-tech business aircraft, which are more environmentally friendly in terms of noise and air pollution than the bulk of the current movements. We would therefore expect the level of pollution caused by local air traffic to actually fall over the next few years.
