Edinburgh Airport have extended their consultation on possible new flight paths as a result of a computer glitch. It will now run until 19 September 2016.
During an upgrade of their website some input may have been lost. If you submitted a response online between 10.31 am on Monday 29 August 2016 and 12.05pm on Friday 2 September 2016 then you are asked to send it again.
Thousands have responded to the consultation to date and the airport is keen to ensure that everyone’s response is counted. Some 199 emails may have been affected.
Gordon Robertson, Edinburgh Airport’s Director of Communications, said: “Edinburgh Airport has been conducting its Lets Go Further ACP consultation since June this year and has already had an excellent response with thousands of submissions.
“We have identified that responses submitted via the consultation website between 10:31am on Monday 29 August and 12:05 pm Friday 2 September did not save during a planned upgrade of the site.
“Although this is a relatively small number of responses in the context of the overall number of submissions, we are committed to ensuring that all who want to comment on our plans can.
“Despite this 21 email addresses were captured and the airport has this morning responded to them directly to explain the situation and request they resubmit.
“To that end we are asking anyone whose response may therefore not be visible to us to resubmit their views via the website.
“We will extend the consultation by one week with the finish date now being Monday 19th September and we will be contacting all stakeholders to inform them of this extension.
“We apologise wholeheartedly for this and believe that this extension offers sufficient time for people to resubmit their input.”
The Let’s Go Further consultation is seeking views on the potential impact of altering flight paths above Edinburgh and the surrounding areas to allow for maximum operational benefits. http://www.letsgofurther.com/
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