Presented at the November 2, 2011 Airport Community Roundtable Meeting SFO Aircraft Noise Abatement Office Third Quarter 2011
Fly Quiet Program San Francisco International Airport’s Fly Quiet Program is an Airport Community Roundtable initiative implemented by the Aircraft Noise Abatement Office. Its purpose is to encourage individual airlines to operate as quietly as possible at SFO. The program promotes a participatory approach in complying with noise abatement procedures and objectives by grading an airline’s performance and by making the scores available to the public via newsletters, publications, and public meetings. Fly Quiet offers a dynamic venue for implementing new noise abatement initiatives by praising and publicizing active participation rather than a system that admonishes violations from essentially voluntary procedures.
Program Goals The overall goal of the Fly Quiet Program is to influence airlines to operate as quietly as possible in the San Francisco Bay Area. A successful Fly Quiet Program can be expected to reduce both single event and total noise levels around the airport.
Program Reports Fly Quiet reports communicate results in a clear, understandable format on a scale of 0-10, zero being poor and ten being good. This allows for an easy comparison between airlines over time. Individual airline scores are computed and reports are generated each quarter. These quantitative scores allow airline management and flight personnel to measure exactly how they stand compared to other operators and how their proactive involvement can positively reduce noise in the Bay Area.
Program Elements Currently the Fly Quiet Program rates jets and regional jets on six elements : the overall noise quality of each airline’s fleet operating at SFO, an evaluation of single overflight noise level exceedences, a measure of how well each airline complies with the preferred nighttime noise abatement runways, assessment of airline performance to the Gap and Shoreline Departures, and over the bay approaches to runways 28L and 28R.
SFO’s Fly Quiet Ratings Fleet Noise Quality The Fly Quiet Program Fleet Noise Quality Rating evaluates the noise contribution of each airline’s fleet as it actually operates at SFO. Airlines generally own a variety of aircraft types and schedule them according to both operational and marketing considerations. Fly Quiet assigns a higher rating or grade to airlines operating quieter, new generation aircraft, while airlines operating older, louder technology aircraft would rate lower. The goal of this measurement is to fairly compare airlines—not just by the fleet they own, but by the frequency that they schedule and fly particular aircraft into SFO.
Noise Exceedance Eliminating high-level noise events is a long-standing goal of the Airport and the Airport Community Roundtable. As a result the Airport has established single event maximum noise level limits at each noise-monitoring site. These thresholds were set to identify aircraft producing noise levels higher than are typical for the majority of the operations. Whenever an aircraft overflight produces a noise level higher than the maximum decibel value established for a particular monitoring site, the noise threshold is surpassed and a noise exceedance occurs. An exceedance may take place during approach, takeoff, or possibly during departure ground roll before lifting off. Noise exceedances are logged by the exact operation along with the aircraft type and airline name.
Nighttime Preferential Runway Use SFO’s Nighttime Preferential Runway Use program was developed in 1988. Although the program cannot be used 100% of the time because of winds, weather, and other operational factors, the Airport, the Community Roundtable, the FAA, and the Airlines have all worked together to maximize its use when conditions permit. The program is voluntary; compliance is at the discretion of the pilot in command. The main focus of this program is to maximize flights over water and minimize flights over land and populated areas between 1:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. Fortunately, because airport activity levels are lower late at night, it is feasible to use over-water departure procedures more frequently than would be possible during the day. Reducing nighttime noise—especially sleep disturbance— is a key goal of SFO’s aircraft noise abatement program.
Shoreline Departure Quality Aircraft departing SFO using Runways 28L and 28R are also considered by the Fly Quiet grading system whenever they use the Shoreline Departure Procedure. This predominately VFR (visual flight rules) departure steers aircraft to the northeast shortly after takeoff in an attempt to keep aircraft and aircraft noise away from the residential communities located to the northwest of SFO. By keeping aircraft east of Highway 101 the majority of the overflights will be experienced by industrial and business parks instead of residential areas. In order to evaluate each airline’s performance when flying a Shoreline Departure, a corridor was established using Interstate 101 (green colored flight tracks) as a reference point. The corridor runs north along 101, beginning approximately one-mile north-northwest of the end of Runways 28L and 28R and continuing up into the City of Brisbane. Departures west of 101 are scored marginal or poor depending on their location.
Gap Departure Quality Aircraft departing SFO using Runways 28L and 28R frequently depart straight out using a procedure known as the Gap Departure. This procedure directs air traffic to fly a route that takes them over the area northwest of the airport over the cities of South San Francisco, San Bruno, Daly City, and Pacifica. In an attempt to mitigate noise in this specific area, the Gap Departure Quality Rating has been included as a category in the Fly Quiet Program. Since “higher is quieter”, aircraft altitudes are recorded along the departure route. Scores are assigned at specified points or gates set approximately one mile apart, with the higher aircraft receiving higher scores.
Foster City Arrival Quality The Arrival Quality Rating is the latest addition to the Fly Quiet Program. In an effort to further reduce nighttime noise in neighboring communities, this rating is designed to maximize over-bay approaches to Runways 28 between 11:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. Airlines arriving to Runways 28 during these hours are assessed based on which approach flight path was used. Over-the-bay approaches are rated good (green colored flight tracks), versus over-the-communities which are rated poor. Revised date: 5/15/09
July 1 to September 30, 2011
Airline Fly Quiet Summary Report - 3rd Quarter 2011 Fleet Noise Quality
Airline
Noise Exceedance
Nighttime Runway Use
Departures
Arrivals
Shoreline Gap
Foster City
Final Score
RPA
10.00
10.00
-
10.00
-
-
10.00
ANA
7.42
9.97
-
-
6.94
-
8.11
DLH
9.15
9.95
-
10.00
3.29
-
8.10
ASH
10.00
9.99
-
-
3.84
-
7.94
MES
10.00
9.98
-
8.00
6.46
5.00
7.89
ACA
7.31
9.89
-
9.46
5.56
6.79
7.80
JAL
5.64
9.97
-
-
7.58
-
7.73
ATN
6.15
9.94
-
8.33
5.42
-
7.46
ABX
4.87
8.97
7.33
9.17
7.50
6.85
7.45
AFR
8.58
9.91
-
8.33
2.78
-
7.40
SKW
10.00
9.99
3.33
9.45
5.63
5.39
7.30
FFT
6.42
9.96
-
9.71
2.50
7.84
7.28
FDX
4.06
8.71
-
10.00
7.08
6.44
7.26
AMX
5.82
9.66
3.59
10.00
6.25
7.55
7.15
SWR
8.17
9.97
-
-
3.19
-
7.11
SCX
5.82
9.94
3.33
10.00
5.63
6.88
6.93
SWA
5.74
9.90
3.33
10.00
5.89
6.71
6.93
JBU
4.85
9.92
3.33
8.08
7.17
7.97
6.89
DAL
6.68
9.85
3.33
8.75
4.80
7.91
6.89
AWE
5.07
9.88
3.33
8.80
6.25
7.77
6.85
VRD
5.38
9.95
4.29
8.70
5.77
6.79
6.81
WJA
5.82
9.99
-
9.17
2.00
-
6.74
TAI
5.46
9.73
3.55
-
7.50
7.04
6.66
BER
4.05
10.00
-
5.00
7.40
-
6.61
AAY
1.90
9.52
10.00
-
-
5.00
6.61
AAL
5.91
9.89
3.48
8.96
3.31
7.55
6.52
UAL
5.95
9.75
3.50
9.61
3.19
6.67
6.45
ASA
5.41
9.90
-
10.00
1.90
5.00
6.44
KLM
4.66
9.95
-
-
4.50
-
6.37 6.23
CCA
3.43
9.90
-
-
5.08
-
6.13
VIR
3.43
9.95
-
-
4.80
-
6.06
COA
5.85
9.83
3.40
7.12
1.48
7.70
5.90
TRS
5.82
9.89
3.33
6.00
1.88
8.09
5.83
HAL
3.84
9.82
3.33
10.00
2.48
5.00
5.75
LPE
3.84
10.00
-
-
3.32
-
5.72
NCA
3.43
8.26
-
-
4.49
6.18
5.59
EVA
6.82
8.03
0.47
-
5.49
6.67
5.50
UAE
7.42
9.92
0.00
5.00
4.57
-
5.38
SIA
7.42
7.94
0.22
-
5.27
-
5.21
San Francisco International Airport Fly Quiet Program
Airline Fly Quiet Rating
SFO AVERAGE
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Airline Fly Quiet Summary Report - 3rd Quarter 2011 Fleet Noise Quality
Airline
Noise Exceedance
Nighttime Runway Use
Departures Shoreline Gap
Arrivals Foster City
Final Score
BAW
3.43
9.76
-
-
2.05
-
5.08
CLX
3.43
9.20
-
-
1.25
5.00
4.72
AAR
4.76
6.27
0.98
-
4.55
6.09
4.53
KAL
4.53
3.04
1.84
-
5.08
5.74
4.05
WOA
3.43
0.57
5.00
-
1.25
6.25
3.30
PAL
4.19
0.00
0.00
-
3.73
8.33
3.25
CPA
3.43
1.76
0.52
-
3.25
6.33
3.06
CAL
3.43
1.27
0.33
-
4.07
5.63
2.94
ANZ
3.46
0.06
0.00
-
2.08
-
1.40
8.55
2.89
8.76
4.47
6.60
6.23
Airline Fly Quiet Rating
0
SFO Average
San Francisco International Airport Fly Quiet Program
5.66
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
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Fleet Noise Quality - 3rd Quarter 2011 Nationwide
Airline
Fleet Noise Quality Rating
San Francisco Average Daily Jet Score Operations
MES
10.00
2
10.00
RPA
10.00
1
10.00
SKW
10.00
82
10.00
ASH
10.00
2
10.00
DLH
6.09
2
9.15
AFR
5.49
1
8.58
SWR
5.17
1
8.17
ANA
5.43
1
7.42
SIA
5.93
2
7.42
UAE
7.89
1
7.42
ACA
6.75
10
7.31
EVA
5.05
2
6.82
DAL
4.92
28
6.68
FFT
6.41
5
6.42
ATN
5.83
0
6.15
UAL
5.83
127
5.95
AAL
3.94
30
5.91
COA
5.98
18
5.85
AMX
5.54
1
5.82
SCX
5.82
1
5.82
TRS
6.97
6
5.82
WJA
5.82
2
5.82
SWA
5.70
41
5.74
Fleet Noise Quality Rating
5.66
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JAL
4.20
1
5.64
TAI
5.18
2
5.46
ASA
5.10
13
5.41
VRD
5.31
40
5.38
AWE
5.67
17
5.07
ABX
1.52
2
4.87
JBU
6.13
10
4.85
AAR
3.93
2
4.76
KLM
4.67
1
4.66
KAL
4.05
2
4.53
PAL
5.09
1
4.19
FDX
2.80
1
4.06
BER
5.92
0
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Nationwide
Airline
Fleet Noise Quality Rating
San Francisco Average Daily Jet Score Operations
HAL
6.21
1
3.84
LPE
4.38
1
3.84
ANZ
4.00
1
3.46
BAW
4.34
2
3.43
CAL
3.62
2
3.43
CCA
3.46
1
3.43
CLX
3.43
0
3.43
CPA
4.18
2
3.43
NCA
3.90
1
3.43
VIR
5.84
1
3.43
WOA
4.72
0
3.43
AAY
1.91
0
1.90
Fleet Noise Quality Rating
0
AVERAGE
San Francisco International Airport Fly Quiet Program
5.42
10
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
5.66
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301.26Noise Exceedance Rating Report - 3rd 0.00 Quarter 2011
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Noise Exceedances Airline
Total Noise Exceedances BER
0
Total Quarterly Operations
Exceedances per 1000 Operations
Noise Exceedance Quality Rating
Score
69
0
10.00
LPE
0
93
0
10.00
RPA
0
187
0
10.00
ASH
1
374
3
9.99
WJA
1
364
3
9.99
SKW
42
15,156
3
9.99
MES
2
389
5
9.98
JAL
1
187
5
9.97
SWR
1
184
5
9.97
ANA
1
183
5
9.97
FFT
7
865
8
9.96
VRD
69
7,272
9
9.95
KLM
2
184
11
9.95
VIR
2
184
11
9.95
DLH
4
361
11
9.95
SCX
3
239
13
9.94
ATN
1
74
14
9.94
JBU
30
1,824
16
9.92
UAE
3
182
16
9.92
AFR
5
261
19
9.91
ASA
46
2,302
20
9.90
SWA
163
7,529
22
9.90
CCA
4
184
22
9.90
AAL
127
5,565
23
9.89
TRS
26
1,093
24
9.89
ACA
43
1,802
24
9.89
AWE
74
3,071
24
9.88
DAL
155
5,097
30
9.85
COA
120
3,377
36
9.83
HAL
7
192
36
9.82
BAW
18
366
49
9.76
UAL
1,207
23,335
52
9.75
TAI
18
320
56
9.73
AMX
18
257
70
9.66
AAY
1
10
100
9.52
CLX
1
6
167
9.20
ABX
79
369
214
8.97
FDX
35
130
269
8.71 8.55
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Noise Exceedance Rating Report - 3rd Quarter 2011 Noise Exceedances Airline
Total Noise Exceedances
Total Quarterly Operations
Exceedances per 1000 Operations
Noise Exceedance Quality Rating
Score
NCA
55
152
362
8.26
EVA
136
332
410
8.03
SIA
157
367
428
7.94
AAR
236
304
776
6.27
KAL
539
372
1449
3.04
CPA
718
419
1714
1.76
CAL
565
311
1817
1.27
WOA
51
26
1962
0.57
ANZ
273
132
2068
0.06
PAL
362
174
2080
0.00 0
TOTAL SFO AVERAGE
San Francisco International Airport Fly Quiet Program
5,409
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
86,226 301
8.55
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Nighttime Preferential Runway Use - 3rd Quarter 2011 Nighttime Departures ( 1:00 am to 6:00 am )
Nighttime Runway Use Rating
Airline Total
10L/R
28L/R Shoreline
01L/R
28L/R Straight
Score
AAY
1
100%
0%
0%
0%
10.00
ABX
65
60%
2%
37%
2%
7.33
WOA
10
50%
0%
0%
50%
5.00
VRD
7
14%
0%
86%
0%
4.29
AMX
77
4%
1%
94%
1%
3.59
TAI
121
4%
0%
94%
2%
3.55
UAL
102
4%
2%
89%
5%
3.50
AAL
23
0%
4%
96%
0%
3.48
COA
48
4%
0%
90%
6%
3.40
AWE
4
0%
0%
100%
0%
3.33
DAL
98
1%
0%
97%
2%
3.33
HAL
1
0%
0%
100%
0%
3.33
JBU
12
0%
0%
100%
0%
3.33
SCX
3
0%
0%
100%
0%
3.33
SKW
27
0%
0%
100%
0%
3.33
SWA
3
0%
0%
100%
0%
3.33
TRS
15
0%
0%
100%
0%
3.33
KAL
87
18%
0%
0%
82%
1.84
AAR
41
10%
0%
0%
90%
0.98
CPA
96
5%
0%
0%
95%
0.52
EVA
107
5%
0%
0%
95%
0.47
CAL
92
3%
0%
0%
97%
0.33
SIA
92
2%
0%
0%
98%
0.22
ANZ
1
0%
0%
0%
100%
0.00
PAL
8
0%
0%
0%
100%
0.00
UAE
1
0%
0%
0%
100%
0.00
2.89
0
TOTAL SFO AVERAGE
San Francisco International Airport Fly Quiet Program
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
1,142 11%
0%
53%
36%
2.89
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Shoreline Departure Rating - 3rd Quarter 2011 Shoreline Departures
Airline Total
Successful
Marginal
Shoreline Departure Rating
Poor
Score
AMX
1
100%
0%
0%
10.00
ASA
26
100%
0%
0%
10.00
DLH
1
100%
0%
0%
10.00
FDX
7
100%
0%
0%
10.00
HAL
1
100%
0%
0%
10.00
RPA
3
100%
0%
0%
10.00
SCX
7
100%
0%
0%
10.00
SWA
20
100%
0%
0%
10.00
FFT
17
94%
6%
0%
9.71
UAL
285
93%
6%
1%
9.61
ACA
28
89%
11%
0%
9.46
SKW
182
90%
9%
1%
9.45
ABX
6
83%
17%
0%
9.17
WJA
6
83%
17%
0%
9.17
AAL
72
83%
13%
4%
8.96
AWE
25
76%
24%
0%
8.80 8.76
DAL
52
79%
17%
4%
8.75
VRD
69
77%
20%
3%
8.70
AFR
3
67%
33%
0%
8.33
ATN
3
67%
33%
0%
8.33
JBU
13
62%
38%
0%
8.08
MES
5
60%
40%
0%
8.00
COA
52
54%
35%
12%
7.12
TRS
5
40%
40%
20%
6.00
BER
1
0%
100%
0%
5.00
UAE
1
0%
100%
0%
5.00 0
TOTAL SFO AVERAGE
San Francisco International Airport Fly Quiet Program
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
891 77%
21%
2%
8.76
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Gap Departure Climb Rating - 3rd Quarter 2011 Gap Departures
Airline
Total
Gap Departure Quality Rating
Score
JAL
74
7.58
ABX
3
7.50
TAI
2
7.50
BER
25
7.40
JBU
23
7.17
FDX
3
7.08
ANA
90
6.94
MES
6
6.46
AMX
1
6.25
AWE
83
6.25
SWA
186
5.89
VRD
99
5.77
SKW
241
5.63
SCX
2
5.63
ACA
9
5.56
EVA
160
5.49
ATN
3
5.42
SIA
180
5.27
KAL
166
5.08
CCA
92
5.08
VIR
83
4.80
DAL
269
4.80
UAE
91
4.57
AAR
147
4.55
KLM
35
4.50
NCA
76
4.49
CAL
153
4.07
ASH
14
3.84
PAL
82
3.73
LPE
29
3.32
AAL
174
3.31
DLH
181
3.29
CPA
205
3.25
SWR
90
3.19
UAL
2357
3.19
4.47
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Gap Departure Climb Rating - 3rd Quarter 2011 Gap Departures
Airline
Total
Gap Departure Quality Rating
Score
AFR
121
2.78
FFT
4
2.50
HAL
56
2.48
ANZ
65
2.08
BAW
168
2.05
WJA
5
2.00
ASA
25
1.90
TRS
4
1.88
COA
196
1.48
CLX
2
1.25
WOA
8
1.25 0
TOTAL SFO Average
San Francisco International Airport Fly Quiet Program
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
6088 4.47
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Foster City Arrival Rating - 3rd Quarter 2011 Foster City Arrivals
Airline
Total
Successful
Marginal
Foster City Arrival Rating
Poor
Score
PAL
3
67%
33%
0%
8.33
TRS
136
62%
38%
0%
8.09
JBU
106
59%
41%
0%
7.97
DAL
277
58%
41%
0%
7.91
FFT
37
57%
43%
0%
7.84
AWE
150
55%
45%
0%
7.77
COA
222
54%
46%
0%
7.70
AMX
92
51%
49%
0%
7.55
AAL
216
51%
48%
0%
7.55
TAI
120
41%
59%
0%
7.04
SCX
8
38%
63%
0%
6.88
ABX
65
37%
63%
0%
6.85
VRD
148
36%
63%
1%
6.79
ACA
70
36%
64%
0%
6.79
SWA
248
35%
64%
1%
6.71
UAL
780
34%
66%
1%
6.67
EVA
3
33%
67%
0%
6.67 6.60
FDX
59
29%
71%
0%
6.44
CPA
15
27%
73%
0%
6.33
WOA
12
25%
75%
0%
6.25
NCA
51
24%
76%
0%
6.18
AAR
46
22%
78%
0%
6.09
KAL
88
15%
85%
0%
5.74
CAL
16
13%
88%
0%
5.63
SKW
142
8%
91%
1%
5.39
AAY
1
0%
100%
0%
5.00
ASA
18
0%
100%
0%
5.00
CLX
1
0%
100%
0%
5.00
HAL
1
0%
100%
0%
5.00
MES
1
0%
100%
0%
5.00 0 1
TOTAL SFO AVERAGE
San Francisco International Airport Fly Quiet Program
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
3,132 32%
68%
0%
6.60
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