LBA Support Group Initiative

[lbaspotter]

At this rate we may even hit 1000 today!

Even better is that the sharing of the petition seems to be going up quicker too.

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[White Heather]

960 - 40 to go to hit the first major milestone in just 13 days.

Remind me - didn't it take GALBA
3 months to reach 330?

 

[Finger66]

Only another 9 since 1440 then. Can we have a "grand" weekend. Here's hoping!

 

[White Heather]

Only another 9 since 1440 then. Can we have a "grand" weekend. Here's hoping!

Its usually slow during the day. Hopefully it will pick up later and over the weekend.

 

[White Heather]

And it's improved slightly to 975.

 

[lbaspotter]

Hoping the email blast to all signatories via the Change.org website that I did at around 20:20 this evening is helping.

 

[lbaspotter]

Midnight check-in and the petition now stands at 977, we are now just 23 short of 1000 signatures milestone.

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[White Heather]

On 996.
Just 4 required to hit 1000.

 

[Seasider]

I don't want to be a "killjoy" but less than 1000 supporters out of 19 000 views doesn't look good, or is that the norm?

 

[White Heather]

I don't want to be a "killjoy" but less than 1000 supporters out of 19 000 views doesn't look good, or is that the norm?

Who knows?

 

[Aviador]

I'm sure many more saw the anti airport petition yet they only achieved around 300 signatures. The point is, most people aren't all that bothered either way. What's in our favour now is the pandemic is having a direct impact on the economy.

 

[lbaspotter]

I don't want to be a "killjoy" but less than 1000 supporters out of 19 000 views doesn't look good, or is that the norm?

So the question is

Do you, or anyone other forum member have any idea's that we haven't used yet on how we can get more people to sign up and share our petition?
If so please feel free to share your idea's with us, I can guarantee we will endeavour to look and consider them all. Remember we have to keep within the Tire 3 rules and social distancing, so sadly going out to gather signatures by hand using Pen, Paper isn't going to happen..

 

[White Heather]

To be frank, the vast majority of people have other things on their mind right now. We are doing all we can. Almost 1000 in 15 days is a lot better than just over 300 in nearly 4 months.
As LBASpotter said, we are all ears, but it's up to everyone to share the link or post on the Facebook groups they are on. There are some where the admins won't allow things like this which doesn't help.
I doubt anyone knows what the average response rate is for these petitions.

 

[Bazza]

So the question is

Do you, or anyone other forum member have any idea's that we haven't used yet on how we can get more people to sign up and share our petition?
If so please feel free to share your idea's with us, I can guarantee we will endeavour to look and consider them all. Remember we have to keep within the Tire 3 rules and social distancing, so sadly going out to gather signatures by hand using Pen, Paper isn't going to happen..

Have the folks at Air Yorkshire been contacted? Apologies if this has already been mentioned earlier. Maybe 100-200 members? Not sure

 

[lbaspotter]

Have the folks at Air Yorkshire been contacted? Apologies if this has already been mentioned earlier. Maybe 100-200 members? Not sure

Yes they have posted and shared our petition on the Facebook Page.

Not sure if they have included it in this months Magazine as I'm no longer a member. If anyone is a member that has contact or either receives the magazine/attends the monthly meeting PLEASE ASK them (on our behalf or as a Supporter/Signatory) to sign & share the petition for us.

Again we can't do it all, but I'll have a look on the Air Yorkshire website for contact details send them an email. Also we've have had no reply from either Multiflight or Heailds Aviation as yet through Twitter, so I will try again directly though there email too.

 

[White Heather]

I suspect the likes of Multiflight & Heilds may be reluctant as they don't use the terminal at all and they may well suspect a future increase in landing fees if it goes ahead.
It's a shame we can't get to attend an Air Yorkshire meeting to explain how vital this is but they won't be having them. This is the perfect time NOT to be trying to gather support. Were it not for Covid I can guarantee that had we been able to secure support within the terminal as we did last time, we would have over 20,000 supporting this. LBA couldn't have picked a worse time but they were not to know when they started the process.

 

[White Heather]

999

 

[Wardair166]

I think the general apathy shown towards the application (less than 2000 people registered their objection on the LCC planning portal) can only bolster the application.

 

[White Heather]

I think the general apathy shown towards the application (less than 2000 people registered their objection on the LCC planning portal) can only bolster the application.

I understood it was over 3000, with around 1300 writing in support, which is a higher support ratio than normal for an airport planning application. You would hope that the Council would recognise that the objections are not huge (less than for the 1990s 24 hour ops application) and assume that the rest didn't object. However, what is clear is that whilst the council policy remains to support the airport, the plans panel have a significant green presence who would rather slit their own throats than approve this, even if told they have no valid reasons to reject it.

 

[White Heather]

We passed 1000.
1001 to he precise. A major milestone.