Coronavirus in Yorkshire: Leeds Bradford Airport needs to clean up its act

ON March 5 we returned to the UK, arriving early evening at our so-called International Airport, an airport that keeps promoting itself to be our Yorkshire Gateway.

Well, how surprised were we to find the most appalling conditions in the toilets in the arrivals/luggage collection area at Leeds Bradford Airport.

Three flights had arrived almost together, resulting in approximately 500 people milling around the collecting area.

A large number were obviously desperate to use the toilet facilities, as indeed we were. This can only be described as a complete mistake.

The gents had four urinals, four washbasins, one liquid soap dispenser with a queue of people waiting to use them and two hand driers. There was no sign of additional hand sanitisers anywhere.

The entry and exit door was utterly filthy and looked as though no one had even thought to clean it ever. My wife’s experience mirrored mine. There were a few photocopied Covid 19 notices stuck to walls with what appeared to be Blue Tac, the writing too small to read properly.

With the advice of the Government to wash hands frequently, and the scrum in the toilet area, I can only think the powers that be at LBA were still sitting around glowing at the thought of the proposed new terminal.

My advice would be they spend more time on the here and now and improve the experience of people arriving at an airport that can only be described as being worse than Third World and creating a poor example of the gateway to this great county.

I write this letter as LBA cannot be bothered to reply to my comments left on the website, despite saying they will reply within 24 hours.

They had my phone number and email address but one week later nothing has been forthcoming. Is this yet another example of the contempt with which LBA treat their passengers?