The City of Dorval against overnight flights

At that time, the municipal Council of the City of Dorval will forward it to the federal authorities and to Aéroports de Montréal (ADM) in order to force them to develop more equitable solutions to noise management at the airport, with a view to achieving a better balance in the sharing of the associated irritants.

According to the City Communication Officer Sébastien Gauthier, ’’the petition, available in all Dorval municipal buildings since last June, is an initiative of the Dorval Council, which is categorically opposed, with some exceptions for special circumstances, to flights between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m., regardless of the weight or tonnage of the aircraft, or any other operational criterion applied to allow such operations.’’ It should be noted that, with the blessing of Transport Canada and ADM, the number of overnight flights has increased annually to a point where in 2007, they numbered around 19 000. It should also be noted that 80% of the complaints received by ADM from residents are related to overnight operations.