Giants fans plan another airplane banner protest for Jaxson Dart’s debut at MetLife Stadium (UPDATE)

UPDATE: There are currently bookings for three planes — not just one — towing protest banners to fly over MetLife Stadium before the 0-3 Giants face the 3-0 Chargers on Sunday, according to Dave Dempsey, who owns the Woodbine-based company, High Exposure Aerial Advertising, that flies the planes.

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The airplane protest banners are back.

Well, at least one of them.

For Sunday afternoon’s home game against the Chargers, an angry Giants fan has hired a plane to tow a banner with a message aimed at the team’s ineptitude, the banner plane company’s owner told NJ Advance Media.

This comes as Jaxson Dart — the Giants’ prized first-round rookie quarterback — makes his starting debut.

Dave Dempsey, who owns the Woodbine-based High Exposure Aerial Advertising, said Thursday that the Giants fan did not want to reveal the banner’s specific message in advance.

But Dempsey said the message is in line with last year’s banners that flew over MetLife Stadium’s parking lots before back-to-back December games, as the Giants stumbled to a miserable 3-14 record.

Dempsey said he has just one Giants fan client for Sunday’s second home game of the season, as the Giants try to avoid an 0-4 start.

This is a completely new client — a different person from the fans who hired last year’s banners.

It costs about $1,800 to hire one of High Exposure’s planes to fly over MetLife Stadium before a Giants game, said Dempsey.

Last season, the first banner read: “MR MARA ENOUGH — PLZ FIX THIS DUMPSTER FIRE”

A week later, another banner read: “MR MARA ENOUGH — WE WON’T STOP UNTIL YOU FIRE EVERYONE”

Giants co-owner John Mara has overseen a disastrous run — led by general manager Joe Schoen and coach Brian Daboll — since the Giants’ surprising playoff trip in 2022, when they finished 9-7-1.

The Giants went 6-11 and 3-14 the next two seasons. Now, they’re 0-3. They are 1-14 in their last 15 games, as the 3-0 Chargers come to town for Dart’s first start.

If the Giants don’t win some games down the stretch with Dart, Schoen and Daboll will both be fired.

After the season, Mara commented on the banners.

“Listen, I didn’t need planes flying over me to tell me how upset the fans were,” he said. “I hear from them every day. So that really did not have much of an effect. I get how upset they are. I try to respond to them. Nobody was more upset than I am about how we’ve performed in recent years, and I have to stand up here and take the heat.”

Fans had plans for more than just those two banners last season, when the Giants played three December home games. Three banners were scheduled to fly over the third game, the home finale against the Colts (which the Giants won), but weather grounded the planes. (One of those three banner messages wasn’t finalized, but the other two were.)

A week later, the Giants finished the season with a loss at the Eagles. One High Exposure plane towing a Giants protest banner was scheduled to fly over that game, but weather spoiled those plans as well.

One of the pre-Colts banners was going to read: “MR MARA — ENOUGH ... CLEAN HOUSE OR SELL THE TEAM."

Another was going to read: “ARE DRONES SEARCHING FOR GIANTS WINS AT HOME?”

The pre-Eagles banner was going to read: “TY NY FOR NO. 26.”

That was a direct shot at Schoen, who let No. 26 — star running back Saquon Barkley — leave for the Eagles in free agency after the 2023 season. And we all know how that turned out for both teams.

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