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Noise Mitigating Measures
Night Arrival from the Southwest over Water and Night Departure via West Lamma Channel
Given favourable weather and safe flight conditions, aircraft could arrive the Hong Kong International Airport over water from the Southwest and depart over water via the West Lamma Channel during the overnight period.
Our targets were to have 90% of aircraft arriving between midnight and 7:00 a.m. to land from Southwest over water and 95% of aircraft taking off between 11:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. to depart via West Lamma Channel. Such arrangement ensured that populated areas like Sha Tin, Tsuen Wan, Kwai Chung, Sham Tseng and Tsing Lung Tau would not be affected by noise from arriving aircraft and districts like Hung Hom, North Point, Shau Kei Wan and Chai Wan would not be affected by the noise from departing aircraft.
Targets for 2002 and 2003
In 2002, we have successfully completed those targets. Our records indicates that 94.7% of night arrivals and 99.6% of night departures were conducted over water (Figures 6 & 7). Such performance has exceeded our targets. In 2003, we would retain this target.
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