Passage 2
In recent years, there has been a big inerease in air travel and many large aipots have now reached the limit of the number of aircraft moverments they can handle.
The problem is made worse by the size of many major cities which gets in the way of the development of existing airports. Any new airports have to be built a long way from city centers, which presents communication problems, and in many counties there simply isn' t enough land for such developments.
Now a new proposal has been put forward which would help to relieve the congestion, as far as short fights are concemed. This involves the use of the smaller airalt, carrying about fity passengers, which only requires a small takeoff or landing area and which makes comparatively lttle noise. Such aircraft could operate near city centers, for exarmple ，on unused industrial sites, and give good service to businessmen and other travelers who are going between centers which are relatively close, such as European capitals.
The main probleim remaining is the question of noise. There have been so many people complaining about the high level of noise near airports that any govemment can expect to find considerable Teistance to building new airports in towns, even though these short 2 rarge small planes are rlatively quiet. The fact remains, ihat increasing mumbers of people want to travel by air and will accept somewhat slower flights if they can have the convenience of an airport near the city center. In the end, it' s a question of agreement between the travelers and the local inhabitants.
1. Many large aiports have serious difculties in handling aircraft movements because
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2. One of the problems of building new airports is that
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3. To carry out the new proposal,
are needed for short flights.
4. As far as the smaller aircraft is concerned, there are
advantages.
5. From the passage, we can infer that more and more travelers don't care about
as long as an airport is available near the city center.
