Steve Irons (Swan, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I appreciate the shadow minister's call to my call yesterday. If you land in Perth you land in my electorate of Swan. There is one particular flight in my electorate that causes great angst to many of my constituents. This is the South African Airways Airbus A340 that departs at 11.45 pm each night—I see the member for Brand and I am sure he is aware of it, because it flies right over his house—SA flight 281. The A340 is an extremely loud aircraft and the noise reverberates through several suburbs during this quiet time of the night, waking up my constituents and constituents in other areas.

The 2013 monitoring report for Manning showed the Airbus A340 recorded the top nine loudest noise events during the reporting period, with an LAmax dB(A) maximum reading of 77 decibels. Airservices Australia is very familiar with this flight as it generates many complaints. They have assured me they are looking at ways to address this.

It is ironic that when you go to the South African Airways website to book on this flight, while you wait for the search results a message comes up saying, 'From great flights to sleep tights, we'll help you to find the right place to rest your head on holiday.' To South African Airways, my constituents would sleep a lot tighter if South African Airways rescheduled this flight to the daytime or upgraded its aircraft fleet to a modern aircraft.

My question for question time today is: will the member for Moreton still survive or make it through question time today!

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