Three miles down the road from Ian and Susan’s house, Jodi Crome, who has lived in Kirkstall for 23 years, shares their concerns.
Explaining how late night flights affect her, she says: “I have anxiety about going to bed … and that fear of having another awful night and then having to work the next day.”
She says she likes where she lives, her children are at school nearby and she does not want to leave.
“I should be able to expect to have a night’s sleep,” she says.
“I have to admit that on those bad nights I am on Rightmove looking. I know we cannot move, but it feels like you do not want to be here.”
LBA is currently limited to 2,920 aircraft movements between 23:00 and 07:00 BST annually.
But, it now wants to condense night-time hours to between 23:30 and 05:59, a move it says will bring it in line with other UK airports.
It also wants to move from its current air traffic movement restrictions to a quota count system, which measures noise levels rather than aircraft numbers.
Vincent Hodder, LBA chief executive officer, said the changes would “enable us to encourage quieter, cleaner aircraft” and was “not the ‘thousands more night flights’ some would claim”.
Martin Groom, who has also lived in Kirkstall for more than 20 years, says he too has late night thoughts of moving out of the area.
“I would not want to move, but in my darkest hours, that certainly crosses my mind,” he says.
His wife, Gail, says community engagement meetings about the LBA plans, which took place last year, did nothing to ease their anxieties.
“The kind of blurb was that it was there to engage and listen, but it was not at all,” she believes.
“It was a PR exercise where we were bombarded with lots of graphs about how wonderful it would be for Leeds to have this airport and the expansion and the focus on the terminal.
“We were left feeling that this was going to be bulldozed through without care.”