As you will know, we have been campaigning hard against the airport’s plans to change its flight paths and route thousands of aircraft directly over Quensferry, including Echline Primary.  Well over 1,000 people in Queensferry signed our petition against the proposals.

We have been working hard on this issue with local MSP, Alex Cole-Hamilton.  Our new MP, Christine Jardine has also been a terrific help and support since she was elected in June.

The airport has now submitted its proposed new flight paths to the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) tomorrow.

These plans continue to involve flying some planes over Queensferry.  However, the airport has made a number of important changes from what was proposed at the beginning of the year.

Critically, the airport says the proposed new flight path will not come in before Spring 2019.  If approved by the CAA, the new flight path over Queensferry would only be used 6-10am.

With Edinburgh Airport being a 24 hour operation, getting them to agree to restricting this flightpath to a few hours each day is important progress.

Let’s also be clear – this has only happened because of the huge objections which were made by local people.

However, our work must go on. We continue to believe the proposals are wrong and that other, more sensible alternative flight paths exist.  Along with Alex and Christine, we will now take our arguments directly to the CAA, not least because of the many flaws in the airport’s own consultation.