Media portray Leeds Bradford airport unfairly.

[Aviador]

Time after time we have reported here the barrage of negative media towards Leeds Bradford Airport.

I want to use this thread for members of our community to report this.

Over the last week alone we have seen one article relating to items banned from baggage at the regions busiest airport using this image:

Image Credit Yorkshire Live

While down the road at Doncaster which struggled to attract enough traffic to stay open portrayed as a thriving international airport with this image:

Image Credit Yorkshire Evening Post

Now the article about baggage might be a reasonably balanced article in itself but the perception of the airport is instantly changed by the media used with each article.

Thoughts on this and other similar comparisons with neighbouring airports are welcome here.

 

[tonysmith]

Read an article today thinking it was a yorkshire post quote that Doncaster council are in talks today buy the airport and keep it open 😎

 

[ls27]

Can they afford it. It will cost millions. I'll bet the rate payers in Donny won't realise how much it will cost, as Peel won't let it go cheap. Yes these politicians always good at spending the public's money for their glorification. See Tees side!

 

[White Heather]

Can they afford it. It will cost millions. I'll bet the rate payers in Donny won't realise how much it will cost, as Peel won't let it go cheap. Yes these politicians always good at spending the public's money for their glorification. See Tees side!

It would cost many millions, now, and into the future, as chances are it will lose millions too.
However, I have only seen talk of the Council leasing from Peel then getting some fool company in to run the airport, nothing about buying since Peel rejected that some months ago.

But - this thread is about the nasty press being mean to LBA. Not DSA.(or what's left of it).