In terms of the effect of reduced flights from the pandemic, it should be noted that this was a freight aircraft (the vast majority of traffic from Maastricht A

In terms of the effect of reduced flights from the pandemic, it should be noted that this was a freight aircraft (the vast majority of traffic from Maastricht Aachen Airport is freight, even pre-pandemic there were only a few seasonal/charter passenger flights). Living under the flightpath, I haven't noticed a huge change in traffic. In fact, it seems that the airport handled more freight in 2020 than it did in 2019: https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/news/2020/31/air-travel-at-less-than-one-tenth-in-june-2020 https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/news/2020/31/air-travel-at-less-tha... Probably because of freight that would normally be transported in the hold of passenger flights from Schiphol, Brussels or Dusseldorf.