A tale of two petitions !

When the announcement about BMI Baby leaving Cardiff Airport  was made in April last year a number of people on the business networking site  Linkedin were vociferous and vehement in criticising the Management of the airport for allowing this to happen.

With all these things you have a choice, one is to moan and criticise and snipe from the sidelines, a kind of spectator sport. Three of us who had taken part in the discussion decided that we didn’t want to be on the sidelines and wanted to make a difference and out of this desire FlyCardiff was born.

Initially a Facebook page was set up, followed shortly by a free e-petition. Soon after a twitter account and in September 2011 a blog was added to our arsenal.

We’re all volunteers but we reflect with some pride on our tangible achievements of 230 Facebook page likes, 1071 twitter followers, 7600 tweets and 450 signatures on our e-petition. This is in addition to any increased awareness and interest we’ve generated around the subject and for the airport.

From time to time we review our campaign, our strategy and its direction. In December we were contacted by someone who had looked on the National Assembly Website for petitions, to see if there was anything on there relating to the airport. Fortunately, by chance, they’d found our petition as they'd been thinking of setting one up. But this got us thinking and in December we decided to register a petition with the National Assembly of Wales. We had hoped to just register our original petition but the rules said we had to start a new petition rather than transfer ours across.

Unlike our petition there is no space to add comments and unlike our petition, this one is time bound and runs until 31 December 2012. But we figured that another petition (and a very official one) would raise the ante and put the pressure on those who could make a difference to the fortunes of Cardiff Airport. So we went for it

So if you’ve not signed either of our petitions then please do so. If you’ve signed our original e-petition  but not the National Assembly one you know what  to do.

Below are a series of links:

Flycardiff Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/FlyCardiff

FlyCardiff Website http://www.fly-cardiff.co.uk/

Original Petition http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/fly-cardiff/

National Assembly of Wales Petition https://www.assemblywales.org/epetition-list-of-signatories.htm?pet_id=669

Thank you for reading this blog and your continued support. 

Our aspiration, as ever, A WORLD CLASS AIRPORT FOR A WORLD CLASS CITY AND A CRACKING COUNTRY !