North Western railway back in operation: the return of The aircraft noise

The message on the phone display comes from the neighbor's house. "A day of enjoyment and sleeping," writes the sender to the start of the week. A Smiley face with a battered face. Because the North-West runway can be flown at the Frankfurt airport after months of forced break from this Wednesday morning, increasingly, to hold closed, many residents, particularly from aircraft noise-ridden residential area in Frankfurt and the surrounding area of your window, as a precautionary measure on the eve.

Marie Lisa Kehler

Deputy Department head of the Regional section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

And as they are now. In a lot to warm the bedrooms and begin to miss the sounds of the night. The cat fights in the backyard, the chirping of the birds early in the Morning, the late-returning young neighbors. Melancholy is mixed in the sleepy mood. Even those who were able to insure against the crisis, to be credible, to feel the aircraft noise not disturbed, seem to have in the past few months, the value of the rest learned to appreciate.

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With the announcement that the aircraft be able to fly from Wednesday to the North-West runway, seem to automatically the old behavior to be a pattern wax. Occasion seamless Startle from sleep shortly before five o'clock in the Morning. Simply because the body has learned that it could be in a few minutes. Normally, you hear it, the plane circling over the city and the country permission to wait. This Morning, day one after the Corona-forced break, but it's still all quiet. Irritated wait. Sleep is not an option. No noise penetrates through the closed window. It is almost unnaturally quiet. So: get Up, open the window, the view of the sky car. Finally, they were announced, but the flyer. Mass arrest should they land. But - nothing.