text_body: This is the 'Night Flights' amendment that was rejected by the Commons in July 2005, and <a href="http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/division.php?date=2005-10-10&number=50">explained there</a> in more detail.
  
  Essentially, the amendment seeks to preserve the status quo, whereby levels of nightflights are determined by a simple cap on numbers. The Government want to replace this system with a complex 'noise quota' rating that produces a figure for noise averaged across the night. Campaigners fear this would mean more night flights, and argue more flights means more disturbance, even if each one is marginally quieter.
  
  Accountable Aviation votes for this amendment.
  