It's not a page one story, or even something that journalists go and talk much about here in the shadow of Frankfurt, but there's a general 'law' handed down by the government to forbid night time landings at the Frankfurt Airport. The rule says....landings and take-offs end at 11 PM. Landings in the morning? They can start at 5 AM. Take-offs start at 6 AM.
So is this an absolute law? No.
HR (our public network in Hessen) talked about the 2018 averages today. 1,046 flights violated the law in 2018 by landing between 11 PM and midnight. That's around 250 more than the previous year.
The chief violator? RyanAir (the big discount airline). Roughly 300 flights were past 'curfew'.
What usually causes this? This drags out into an argument. Weather conditions can play a part of this issue, along with maintenance issues.
What's occurred now is that the government (locally) went and asked for some law changes....to bring into focus some type of 'fine' for late landings.
It's going to be hard to see how the research will be conducted over each late flight, and if you can blame the airline, more than the weather. Out of the 1,046 flights....could the weather have been a contributor to half of the flights? Unknown. Statistically, no one can cite facts or numbers. Just threatening a 10,000 Euro fine....you'd likely get lawyers involved and waste tens of thousands of Euro on each single event in lawyer fees.
Why this whole curfew thing is a big deal? You have the property around the airport's runways which really developed big-time in the 1970s and 1980s, and the owners basically are disturbed by the pattern of flights. If you go back to the 1950s.....these were all marginally occupied areas, with a limited number of flights into Frankfurt. Times changed.
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