Charlotte/Douglas International Airport now faces two separate noise issues. And since this will get confusing, here’s a quick summary:

• Noise complaints from people living near (within two miles or so) of the airport’s new runway, which entered service back in January. Think Belmeade Green, Moores Chapel, Wildwood and Wilson Glen neighborhoods of the westside. These are located north of the new runways. The demand here is simple: Give us money. As one resident put it:

We’re talking about taking on an economic gorilla — an economic gorilla that owes us all money for damage to our property.

Note also that the residents went straight to the press.

• Noise complaints from people living near Lake Wylie. These people live further from the airport and they’re in the approaches to one of the airport’s older runways. They always got some aircraft noise and were OK with that. But since April, the FAA has changed how they are routing aircraft once they are more than two miles from the runway. Instead of having planes fly a variety of routes to disperse the noise impact, now all the aircraft are flying over very precise waypoints, effectively concentrating the noise. The effected neighborhoods want to go back to the way the FAA was doing things before. They went to the airport with their concerns — the airport would like to help, but they don’t have any control over this issue.

Quick fixes to either of these issues? No, not so much. So expect to hear about them for awhile.