Caroline Baudry / Credits: Jean-Luc Boujon / Europe 1 6:19 a.m., March 15, 2024

The French union against aircraft nuisance and the “Rester sur terre” association are meeting this Friday morning in front of the Ministry of Transport in Paris where they are to be received to talk about the hell experienced by local residents because of noise pollution linked to air traffic.  

How to live near an airport?

The Ufcna and “Rester sur terre” associations are meeting this Friday morning in front of the Ministry of Transport in Paris where they are to be received.

Between pollution and noise, those living near airports experience hell because of air traffic, which has grown spectacularly in recent decades.

According to the annual statistical bulletins of commercial air traffic, the number of passengers departing from or destined for France has doubled in 20 years. 

In the town of Margency, under one of the air corridors of Paris Charles de Gaulle airport, Dominique Reveillere, from the association for the defense against air pollution, is fighting to cap air traffic, the growth of which promises to be exponential. .

In this area, the sky is never really blue but always lacerated by the white trails of planes.

When the weather is nice, there is 1 minute 30 minutes between two deafening passages. 

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At lunchtime, the noise doesn't stop.

"We are forced to interrupt conversations, we no longer hear each other, around a table, when we eat outside. When they turn, when they wait for landing, when they don't have the runway , I see the landing gears coming out above my head", laments Annie, a neighbor of Dominique.

When these retirees clean the table, “black marks and slightly greenish deposits” are present on it.  

To break this hellish routine, they beg for a few hours of calm.

A curfew on the slopes between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.

"I can never sleep with the window open and I often sleep with traffic jams. And it's short at night. It's very painful, very annoying and you don't get used to it. Not at all," he laments -She.

The former teacher's patient has reached the end.

She decided to put her house up for sale.

In the meantime, she says she hopes for bad weather; according to her, planes will then fly less over her accommodation purchased on the edge of the forest.