A CONSULTATION exercise on plans to change Edinburgh Airport’s flight paths, has shown that 67 per cent of Fifers are against the move.

The airport is consulting the public on its Airspace Change Programme (ACP), asking for views on the potential impact of altering flight paths. The airport wants to modernise their flight paths which they say currently rely on 1950s technology. 

There have been 5,791 responses from individuals and of the community councils that replied to the consultation, 70 per cent of them gave negative responses. 

Many villages along the West Fife coast questioned why the airport was pushing flight paths over rural areas instead of making use of noisy city space.

One comment said: “Surely it is possible to gain more height out over the Firth of Forth before crossing to Fife and flying at fairly low altitude over Aberdour, Dalgety Bay, Inverkeithing and Rosyth.”

The ACP will now develop viable options by December of this year to investigate how it will minimise community impact. A second public consolation will begin in January.