Airport Runway and Flight Paths

Over the summer we had noticed a lot more commercial planes flying overhead. As the summer went on it seemed to get more and more planes in the skies over our house. We especially noticed the planes directly overhead at all different times of the day and usually in small groups of one following another. It was like the flight paths from the airport had suddenly changed.

It turned out that that's exactly what happened. Apparently the Buffalo Niagara Airport had closed down one of it's major runways for repairs earlier in the summer and the airlines needed to use alternate runways resulting in different flight paths. Some of those new flight paths were coming directly over our home for the first time in all the years we've lived here. It certainly changed the quality of life. Fortunately the runway repairs are scheduled to be completed in September. Hopefully everything will then go back to normal.