I think the so called 'gateway to Australia' needs to get with it. With all the yap about it being a 24 hour global city and all the associated '****-speak', here we have it's airport closed for virtually 30 per cent of every day!
As has been mentioned, current generation aircraft are a hell of a lot quiter than 707s, DC10s and others from yesteryear.
Short of that, I believe they should partially relax the curfew so that there were still no scheduled movements, but still allowing say 60 minutes to cater for the unexpected occasional movements brought on by weather and other unforeseens etc.
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