America West Flight 6699, the first of what some neighbors fear will be a flotilla of late-night flights at Mineta San Jose International Airport, landed quietly -- or at least without protest -- Sunday morning, reaching its arrival gate at 1:45 a.m.
''It took off late from Las Vegas,'' said airline spokesman Carlo Bertolini.
There were no protesters at the airport, as there had been at the America West counter Friday. And there were no reports Sunday of a large number of complaints.
''I haven't received any myself,'' said Adriana Rivas, the on-call spokeswoman for the airport. What she called the airport's ''noise staff'' doesn't work weekends. But ''if there were a high volume'' of complaints, she would have heard, Rivas said.
Flight 6699 is scheduled to leave Las Vegas every night at 11:59 p.m. and arrive at San Jose at 1:25 a.m.
The airline is using 50-seat CRJ-200 jets, which are among the lightest and quietest made, in hopes of avoiding an outcry at an airport that bans late-night and early-morning flights that produce more than 89 decibels of sound.
Mark Wheeling, who lives on Second Street in San Jose, said he and his wife did not hear Sunday morning's landing. ''But we sleep with a white-noise generator, to kind of address nighttime noise issues,'' he said.
''My concern,'' he said, ''is that this is kind of opening the door to more commercial airlines.''
