urbanMSP

Something else worth noting is that I'm starting to see more Delta mainline service to cities that have previously been served by CRJ's. Just on the top of my head they include: Sioux Falls, Fargo, Duluth, Bismarck, Minot, etc. I think Delta is advertising that they are adding capacity, but the freq...

No, westbound take-offs from the northern of the two parallel runways now "peel off" to the north in a way that they didn't before, based on a near-collision that occurred a few years back. This means that a part of south Minneapolis that was previously spared noise now experiences some s...

The problem is that the DNL contours are no longer legitimate due to changing operations. I bought a home outside 65 DNL, and I heavily researched runway operations. Then a year later the departure procedures were fundamentally altered in a way that distributes greater noise outside areas covered b...