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Leipzig / Frankfurt (dpa) - The Federal Administrative Court has dismissed a lawsuit by municipalities against the so-called southern flight around Frankfurt Airport.
The Leipzig judges confirmed on Thursday a ruling by the Hessian Administrative Court (VGH), which had declared the departure routes to be legal in 2019.
(Ref .: BVerwG 4 C 5.19) The noise pollution from aircraft taking off was accordingly properly determined.
All other departure routes also led to noise pollution.
Another variant does not suggest itself as clearly superior.
The residents from the area southwest of Germany's largest airport have been fighting against aircraft noise for years. In 2013 the VGH had already dealt with the southern bypass and overturned the regulation. He saw deficits in the choice of route. The judgment never became valid because it was overturned by the Federal Administrative Court in 2015. Now the federal administrative judges dealt with the southern flyover for the second time.
The departure procedure was introduced in 2011.
The idea was to relieve noise-affected regions in the west of the airport.
In addition, aircraft taking off should not get in each other's way.
For this reason, after taking off in a westward direction, machines first make a swerve to the south before they then turn north or northwest at Groß-Gerau.
Because of the noise, Groß-Gerau and seven other communities from the Hessian-Rhineland-Palatinate border area complained.
According to the court, two of the municipalities had no longer participated in the renewed revision in Leipzig.
The legal remedies have now been exhausted.
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