Isavia has taken various measures to mitigate noise from flights at Keflavík Airport. One such measure was to set up a noise-measuring system to monitor which flights cause the most noise and react accordingly. This was done in 2017.
Three fixed sound-level meters and one mobile sound-level meter are located in the vicinity of Keflavík Airport. These meters form a system enabling residents, stakeholders and Isavia to monitor flights and noise measurements and report nuisances caused by flight traffic movements. A link to the noise-measuring system can be found on the Isavia website. Last year, Isavia received 31 reports of noise and nuisance caused by air traffic. The vast majority of these reports occurred in July, August and September and were linked to: 1) military flights; and 2) runway milling, meaning it was impossible to use the runway pointing away from inhabited areas on several days of good weather.
The two pictures below show the comparison between flight routes 2017 and 2018. The pictures are drawn from heat maps and show well the change in air traffic over residential area at Reykjanes. Now considerable smaller part of the residential area is under direct air traffic.
