so should planes be required to hover in mid air without fuel? or should they land, after hours in other airports not near you?
those are the options. they cannot merely be willed into non-existence.
If any other neighbor caused such an explosion of noise in the middle of the night like that...the police would immediately be called to stop them. Is that what we should do?
Folks will say it's useless. But it will show the Authorities they cannot treat tax-paying folks like that. And let them know we will not stand for it.
I believe there are things they can do, at least for arriving flights. I was on a late night flight coming back from Chicago, headed for LGA. We kept getting delayed on the runway. One of the announcements they made was that the plane was going to have to change its flight plan to land at Newark instead of LGA, due to overnight curfew at LGA, and passengers should start making plans to get picked up at Newark as opposed to LGA.
I was really unhappy about that, given a cab from LGA to my home is $15 and from Newark more like $90 or $100, but there wasn't much I could do. In the end, we did end up taking off shortly after they made that announcement, and we were able to land at LGA within the curfew.
Not sure there is much they can do about departing flights that were already boarded and are just sitting on the runway waiting out the storm.
Btw, I still put in a complaint about the flights at 2:20 am, because I feel it's a slippery slope. If they do it a few times and don't receive complaints, well, then maybe the curfew would be magically lifted as it would seem no one is bothered by the noise.
