6 People Filed 25,000 O'Hare Noise Complaints In A Month - ORD

6 People Filed 25,000 O'Hare Noise Complaints In A Month

Ben Schlappig — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:08:29 +0000

Via Flight Club, O'Hare Airport has a department to deal with airport noise complaints, which were at an all time high in January, with 39,000 complaints being filed: "The Chicago Department of Aviation's Airport Noise Management System recently revealed that noise complaints near the international airport are at an all time high. An official report…

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Ben Schlappig — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 01:51:17 +0000

@ janyyc -- Sorry, promise the tech team is doing what they can to isolate the problem/fix it. Very, very frustrating!

Jane — Sun, 15 Mar 2015 20:54:08 +0000

That is absurd that so few people would post so many complaints; that is ridiculous!! The world does not revolve around just a few. We need the airplanes, so if you can't take the noise, maybe move.

janyyc — Sun, 15 Mar 2015 19:52:49 +0000

Lucky - I've had the exact same problem as Vaynu. It's incredibly frustrating when I visit your website and my iphone is redirected to download Candy Crush instead. Also in Italy it redirected to some pay per view websites which cost €0.18 a view!!! Quickly used €1 trying to open OMAT!!!

Matt — Sun, 15 Mar 2015 16:33:37 +0000

The Chicago Tribune did a story about one of them. May be behind a paywall, but here's a short excerpt. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-ohare-noise-complaints-met-20141026-story.html "Dawne Morong is an unapologetic complainer, a chronicler of the havoc that jet noise wreaks on people's lives, a thorn in the city of Chicago's side. In suburban Wood Dale, no one comes close to expressing air traffic frustrations as frequently or as obsessively as Morong does. Of the 2,883 O'Hare noise complaints filed in August, she accounts for more than one-third of them. On any given weekday morning, she'll submit two dozen complaints before heading to work. It's not unusual for her to send more than 100 in a single day."

Euro — Sun, 15 Mar 2015 13:34:47 +0000

I wonder how many people in Hong Kong complained about the noise that resulted from takeoffs and landings at Kai Tak when it was in operation...

Ben Schlappig — Sun, 15 Mar 2015 13:14:07 +0000

@ Vaynu K. -- Sorry about that. It's not supposed to happen and the tech team is working on isolating the problem best they can. Appreciate your patience!

JMR — Sun, 15 Mar 2015 12:48:35 +0000

At the airport in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, they once fooled a weirdo like this one. This person would complain about every single airplane that left or arrived. So, they listed a non-existing flight on their page and said it had left. Sure enough, that person complained about that flight...

brian — Sun, 15 Mar 2015 12:41:26 +0000

Guessing they emails are auto-generated. Once they pay for "the tool" or simple scripts, they can easily click a button and the random # of seconds sends an email from the list to O'Hare. So, their 'hobby' most probably consumes very little of their time.

No Name — Sun, 15 Mar 2015 11:32:05 +0000

Sounds like they are using a script or bot of some kind. Aircraft noise next to an airport, who knew? Maybe they should have thought about that before moving there.