Campaigners against an airport’s plans to create concentrated flight paths which could cause a "noise ghetto" for people living under it, delivered a Christmas message to airport chiefs yesterday. 

London City Airport is hoping to get the go-ahead to concentrate the flight paths in narrow corridors over Leyton, Leytonstone and Wanstead.

Yesterday, campaigners Eleanor de Kanter and Adam Voss from HACAN East handed in a Christmas card at the airport.

The card said: “To City Airport, Merry Christmas! From the residents you forgot.

“PS: We must meet up in the New Year. We’ve got so much to catch up on!”

The airport has come in for widespread criticism in recent months over its consultation to change its flight paths.

Representatives were grilled by residents in public meetings in Wanstead and Leytonstone in November.

Councils in Redbridge, Waltham Forest and Havering, along with the London Assembly, have all asked that it carries out a fresh consultation in the New Year.

Even Wanstead and Leyton MP John Cryer put down an early morning motion in Parliament calling for a new consultation.

John Stewart, chair of the campaign group HACAN East, said, “The pressure on City Airport will increase in the New Year. 

“As Eleanor and Adam showed today, residents who face the prospect of a lot more flights will refuse to go away.”

The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), which is now looking at the responses to the consultation, has the power to order the airport to consult again.

But the airport has continually said it is following CAA guidelines for consulation.

The public consultation ended on November 27 and a decision is expected soon.