Despite technological advancements in the aviation industry, noise has remained a persistent problem, and its effects have been devastating. Aircraft noise has adverse effects on the academic performance of children who live next to airports; it disturbs sleep and is uncomfortable for passengers (Will et al., 2017). In addition, noise constraints have discouraged the expansion of airports and air operations in most places around the globe. Recent studies have also found that noise disturbance from planes has a positive correlation with cardiovascular disease, hospitalization, and mortality (Will et al., 2017). Further, researchers have established that noise from aircraft is responsible for some psychological conditions. Consequently, there has been a concerted effort by the aircraft manufacturing industry to restrict the noise made by aircraft. Despite slower progress, noise reduction technology promises to be a game changer and could lead to a significant increase in the number of aircraft sales in the future. However, noise restrictions without the requisite noise reduction technology maturing would lead to significant decreases in airplane sales in the future.
To curb the noise disturbance caused by airline industries, the Federal Aviation Authority regulates flight time, types of aircraft, and the number of operations by private airline companies. In addition, airports near crowded residential and commercial areas usually scale back their operations to mitigate against the negative effects of noise produced by airplanes. As noted, federal authorities are invested in ensuring that communities around airports are not harmed physically or psychologically by noise pollution from airplanes. In this endeavor, they restrict the number and operations of aircraft, which ultimately means that aircraft sales would plummet in the future if noise restriction measures are adopted. Thus, aircraft noise restrictions would be a tradeoff between reducing noise pollution and aircraft sales.
Reference
Will, F., Engelke, C., Wunderlich, T.-O., & Hornung, M. (2017). Foundations of a framework to evaluate impacts on future noise situations at airports. 17th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations Conference.