San Diego County Regional Airport Authority Announces Winners of the 2025 Fly Quiet Awards

The San Diego County Regional Airport Authority (Airport Authority) is pleased to announce the winners of the 2025 Fly Quiet Awards, which recognize airlines for their efforts to reduce noise during arrivals and departures at San Diego International Airport (SAN).

The 2025 results reflect continued progress across SAN’s airline partners, including broader use of newer, quieter aircraft, and continued attention to curfew compliance. This year’s program reviewed 27 carriers and more than 210,000 operations.

Four airlines are being recognized for their efforts in 2025. This is the second consecutive year these four airlines received the Fly Quiet Award.

• United Airlines received the highest Fly Quiet Score in the large domestic carrier category due to its use of quieter Airbus A321neo and Boeing 737 MAX aircraft. United Airlines also received the best Fleet Quality score in the large domestic category and was the top performer in curfew compliance in their category.
• Breeze Airways won in the small domestic carrier category by operating quieter Airbus A220 aircraft in and out of SAN. Breeze also received the highest Fleet Quality score in the small domestic category and maintained strong noise and curfew performance throughout 2025.
• DHL Express USA won the air cargo carrier category with strong noise performance and zero curfew violations. Its 2025 SAN operations were supported by a quieter Boeing 767 cargo fleet.
• Lufthansa won the international carrier category. The airline operates the newer and quieter Airbus A350-900 aircraft at SAN and had no nighttime departures or curfew violations in 2025.

The Airport Authority, in collaboration with the Airport Noise Advisory Committee (ANAC), introduced the Fly Quiet Program in 2017 to encourage airlines to work collaboratively with the airport and the community to operate as quietly as possible in the San Diego area.

Achieving the Fly Quiet Award recognizes that airlines have worked to balance their operational needs with those of the community. The Fly Quiet Program uses a scoring system based on specific metrics that measure how quietly airlines operate, including the types of aircraft they use, how loud those aircraft are, and their adherence to SAN’s curfew, which prohibits departures between 11:30 p.m. and 6:30 a.m.

The 2025 results also show that most carriers continue to move toward newer, quieter aircraft. The Airport Authority will continue working with airlines and the community to support quieter operations at SAN.

For more information about SAN’s Fly Quiet Program and to learn about other ways in which SAN is working with airlines and the community to reduce noise, please visit san.org/airport-noise.