Leeds Bradford Airport expansion benefits whole region – Yorkshire Post Letters

At last a sensible proposal to enhance our local Leeds Bradford Airport (The Yorkshire Post, July 7) – hopefully including the Parkway Station.

Do the naysayers not see that this godsend of an airport brings in thousands of jobs to the local area? This fantastic facility on our doorstep allows easy links to all of Europe and is only 20 minutes from the doorstep of over 1.5 million Yorkshire folk of Leeds and Bradford.

There are also multiple roads available to get to Yeadon. If one blocks, there are many others.

Yes, there will be some extra noise and pollution but this is preferable to the one-and-a-half hour drive to Manchester over the M62, never quite knowing if you’ll miss your flight due to an accident, or the hour to get to Doncaster Sheffield airport.

When Covid is over, we will need jobs, we will need holidays, we will need freight transportation and we will need salvation from lockdown.

From: Michael Green, Baghill Green, Tingley.

FOR some weeks now, you have featured articles and letters from the promoters and from the opponents of the proposed new terminal at LBA. Strong opinions on both sides.

But one important thing I have noticed is that there doesn’t even seem to be any agreement between the two sides about what the proposals actually do or do not include.

Is there to be an increase in the permitted number of flights? Are the hours of usage to be extended? Are noise limits proposed for increase? Only if we know what the facts are, can we hope to understand the arguments.

Instead, both sides seem to be indulging in an “oh yes it is, oh no it isn’t” repartee more suited to a pantomime. I’d have hoped they were more grown-up than that.

Editor’s note: first and foremost - and rarely have I written down these words with more sincerity - I hope this finds you well.

Almost certainly you are here because you value the quality and the integrity of the journalism produced by The Yorkshire Post’s journalists - almost all of which live alongside you in Yorkshire, spending the wages they earn with Yorkshire businesses - who last year took this title to the industry watchdog’s Most Trusted Newspaper in Britain accolade.

And that is why I must make an urgent request of you: as advertising revenue declines, your support becomes evermore crucial to the maintenance of the journalistic standards expected of The Yorkshire Post. If you can, safely, please buy a paper or take up a subscription. We want to continue to make you proud of Yorkshire’s National Newspaper but we are going to need your help.

Postal subscription copies can be ordered by calling 0330 4030066 or by emailing [email protected]. Vouchers, to be exchanged at retail sales outlets - our newsagents need you, too - can be subscribed to by contacting subscriptions on 0330 1235950 or by visiting www.localsubsplus.co.uk where you should select The Yorkshire Post from the list of titles available.

If you want to help right now, download our tablet app from the App / Play Stores. Every contribution you make helps to provide this county with the best regional journalism in the country.

Sincerely. Thank you.

James Mitchinson

Editor