Residents complained at a City Council hearing yesterday of an apparent change in flight patterns out of Logan International Airport they say has planes jarring people awake before dawn in neighborhoods they hadn't flown over before, but the agency that controls flight patterns was a no-show.
The Federal Aviation Administration sent no representative to answer questions and would not comment on the complaints when contacted by the Herald.
"It's disappointing they didn't have enough respect for us," Councilor Timothy McCarthy (D-Hyde Park), who sponsored the hearing with Councilor-at-Large Michelle Wu (D-South End). "This is an important issue."
Athena Yerganian of West Roxbury said that starting last fall, she began to hear planes passing over her house as early as 5:30 a.m. and as late as midnight.
"On some days, one can hear the planes take off every minute," Yerganian said, "and on other days, the planes are so low that they sound like they will land short of the runway and land in, say, Franklin Field."
Massport, which owns and operates the airport and its runways, coordinates with the FAA, but the flight paths are the FAA's decision, said Flavio Leo, Massport's deputy director of aviation, planning and strategy.
Boston has lost $18 million in fuel taxes this year, said McCarthy, who wondered whether the loss was due to planes "cutting over our neighborhoods," due to the FAA's implementation of navigation routes that use GPS technology for runway approaches and departures. Boston also has higher rates of asthma, which could be exacerbated by pollution from the planes, he said.
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