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Terminal Racket: The Scourge of Airport Noise
From Los Angeles to Bangkok, a look at how airport noise leaves us reeling. The biggest culprit: public address announcements... (askthepilot.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
In LAS, Frontier makes "this is the last and final boarding call for flight XXX" every three minutes for about 20 minutes before a flight leaves. Clearly is it not.
This is why I carry something to play music with while I am at the airport, or at least waiting at the gate. Sadly, airport buildings do not have enough sound deadening materials around to help tone it all down. As the author notes, building design seems to amplify it so it sounds like Carnegie Hall.
I am happy to learn that my home airport - SFO - will go silent/quiet. Now, if carriers could do the same.
Spot on.
I have trouble inside planes hearing and understanding anything attendants or pilots say over their intercom systems. Does any airline have good quality audio or do they all come from the lowest bidder?
There's a reason I pay for a club membership, and it's mostly to avoid being screamed at every three minutes with the same announcement I've heard for a decade plus.