COME to the Great Yorkshire Air Show, they said, so we did. We were told there would be huge traffic jams, and it would be better using public transport. So we got the train from Wakefield to York but then what happens? No bus service from York to the air show.

We were told by the bus driver it was because of staff shortages, but surely just one driver going on a round tour would have sufficed.

When we asked how much it would cost by taxi we were told £22 because they had learned there was no bus service being laid on. What a country we live in!

So we have not attended the Air Show, wasted a day, and are about £30 worse off. Many others were stranded at the train station. The irony is, as we pulled out of York, we just saw the Red Arrows going through their routine.

R Sugden,

Woodlands,

Ossett, Nr Wakefield, West Yorks.

Editor's note: First York declined to run a bus service to the Evening Press-sponsored air show this year saying there were too few customers for the same service last year. However we have noted these comments and will be taking them into account when preparations are made for the 2002 spectacular.

Updated: 14:07 Friday, August 31, 2001