Europe’s skies are busier than ever and the fallout is landing in your backyard

According to the European Environment Agency's Noise in Europe 2025 report, more than 112 million Europeans (over one in five) are chronically exposed to transport noise (road, rail and aircraft) at levels deemed harmful to health.

Alarmingly, when measured against the stricter World Health Organization guidelines, that share jumps to nearly one in three.

At the same time, EUROCONTROL forecasts 11 million flights across Europe in 2025, a 3.7 percent increase on 2024’s figures, with peak days seeing 37,000 movements in a single 24 hours.

As volumes rebound above pre-pandemic levels, low-flying aircraft (particularly private jets and regional turboprops) are drawing flight paths ever closer to residential areas and these aircraft can be up to 60 percent louder than larger airliners, especially during climb and descent.

Why it matters: chronic aircraft noise is not just an annoyance. A landmark EEA analysis estimates 66,000 premature deaths every year from transport noise, linked to cardiovascular disease, diabetes, depression and cognitive impairment.

These effects are more severe than those from second-hand smoke.

Children in high-noise zones face impaired learning and sleep disruption, compounding long-term social costs.

For anyone buying a home, the hidden risk of “flight blight” is real. That’s where My Flight Path steps in: by fusing live flight-track data with property maps, our platform visualises overflight frequency, altitude profiles and noise contours in easy-to-interpret reports. Surveyors, agents and buyers gain clarity on which neighbourhoods are least impacted and can then make informed, resilient investment decisions.

The road ahead demands coordinated action: from stricter night-flight curfews and quieter engine standards to smarter airspace redesigns. But until policy catches up, technology offers the transparency homebuyers need to navigate Europe’s increasingly crowded skies.Don’t worry about sounding professional. Sound like you. There are over 1.5 billion websites out there, but your story is what’s going to separate this one from the rest. If you read the words back and don’t hear your own voice in your head, that’s a good sign you still have more work to do.