British Airways expands at London City Airport

BRITISH Airways is celebrating its busiest ever summer at London City Airport with news that more aircraft, more routes and more frequencies will be added to the network this winter. 

From November 11, a new year-round service will be launched to Rome from the Docklands airport, with one-way hand baggage only fares from £55. 

In addition a fifth daily service will be added to the popular Zurich route on week days. Rome is the first of a number of new routes and extra flights to be announced for next year.

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The average person in the UK has visited 9.58 countries

BRITISH people are travelling to 37% more countries on average than compared to 2013, according to a survey commissioned by London City Airport.

Evidence of the increasing travel bug has been revealed following a YouGov survey of over 2,200 Brits, with the average number of countries visited by a UK adult - across the full range of age groups - now 9.58. It represents a significant increase from the figure of 7 countries generated from the same question posed to 2,000 people in 2013, as part of a OnePoll survey commissioned by the airport.

The island nation clearly still has an appetite for adventures overseas, with Brits almost twice as likely to visit a new country on holiday (60%) than return to a favourite place (33%), and 94% have been abroad at least once in their life.

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Airside Andy lands in London City Airport

AIRSIDE Andy has teamed with London City Airport to launch the very first Airside Andy dedicated children’s play area. Located in the Western Pier of the airport, this area opened last month and is designed for families travelling with young children.

Designed for children aged 3 – 8. Airside Andy is free to play, with in-app purchases and memberships available to enhance the in-game experience. It is a massively multiplayer online game (MMO), built exclusively for tablet and mobile and available through iTunes and Google Play, where kids can explore the busy world of the airport, and learn to manage short term and long term goals.

The star feature of this space is the Airside Andy play-tech pod. This is designed to look like a mini baggage carousel, complete with two tablets which are attached to suitcases. Each of these tablets are loaded with 21 games, including the Airside Andy game itself.

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TAP now serves three airports in London

TAP’s operation between London City airport and Lisbon launched on 29 October 2017, with the inaugural flight taking off from London City at 7:50pm. TAP now serves three airports in London, offering two daily flights on week-days and one daily flight on weekends from London City to #Lisbon.

With the new addition to its network, TAP becomes the only airline to connect London City, located in the city’s financial centre, and the cosmopolitan destination of Lisbon, and the first Airline to fly this route in the 30 years London City Airport has been operating.

When the final destination is not Lisbon or Porto, passengers can also take advantage of the Portugal Stopover programme on their way out or during their return flight, stopping in Portugal for one, two or three nights for no additional charge to their fare. Since its launch in summer 2016 until the end of last July, almost 70 thousand passengers have already made the most of the programme, and with this new route numbers are expected to rise even further.

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On the runway . . .

BRITISH Airways is to launch new routes from London City Airport to three European capitals, Paris, Prague and Reykjavik, in October.

The new services to the three popular cities will mean British Airways will fly to 30 destinations from London City this winter.

The Orly flights are being transferred to London City Airport from Heathrow, offering customers a choice of two London airports from Paris. Flights to Charles De Gaulle Airport in Paris will continue to operate from Heathrow.

It will be the fifth French route served by British Airways from the Docklands airport. The launch of Prague and Reykjavik routes will be the first time British Airways has flown to the Czech Republic or Iceland from London City.


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UK Airports: Regional airports have highest levels of satisfaction

AS millions of Brits gear up for their big summer holiday, Cheapflights, has once again asked them to share how they score the UK’s airports across more than a dozen categories including shopping, cleanliness, Wi-Fi access, bar and restaurant facilities, check-in and security - even the loos come under scrutiny!

In the second of its annual poll, Cheapflights asked frequent air travellers from across the UK to review London City, Gatwick, Heathrow, Luton and Stansted, Belfast International, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Glasgow International, Leeds Bradford, Liverpool, Manchester and Newcastle airports. 

Newcastle emerged as the overall winner, achieving the highest levels of satisfaction across all categories, followed closely by London City, Liverpool, Edinburgh and Bristol. London’s airports, with the exception of London City, continue to lag behind, with Gatwick, Heathrow, Stansted and Luton all trailing their regional cousins.

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London City Airport raises the flag

TO mark this year’s London Pride Festival, London City Airport is proudly displaying the Pride rainbow flag at the front of its passenger terminal.

The recognisable symbol of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) pride and LGBT social movements will remain in place for the duration of the Festival, until Sunday 9 July.

Michael Spiers, Chief People Officer at London City Airport, said:

“The Pride flag represents the open and inclusive values of London City Airport, both for our staff and our 4.5 million annual passengers. “This is a colourful addition which we hope passengers will recognise, acknowledge, and share pictures of, as they arrive or depart in to London, one of the most vibrant cities in the world.”

The Pride in London 2017 Parade takes place in central London on Saturday 8 July. Any passengers flying in to Pride via London City Airport can reach the West End in just over 30 minutes, with the airport located around 8 miles away.

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British Airways launches year round services to Milan

BRITISH Airways is launching new year-round services to #Milan, Italy from two London airports in April. 

The new routes to Milan’s Linate Airport will start from London City Airport on April 24 and from Stansted Airport on April 29. 

There will be two flights a day on week days and one a day at weekends from London City and two a week from Stansted.

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BA offering 2M seats from London City Airport this Summer

BRITISH Airways is offering almost two million seats from London City Airport this summer and launching a new three-times-a-week service to #Skiathos.

It is the third Greek Island route, alongside Mykonos and Santorini, from London City but this is the first time British Airways has operated to Skiathos, a destination favoured by tourists for its many pine forests and over 60 beaches.

In addition flights to Mykonos will increase from four to five flights a week.

The new Skiathos route will start on June 26 and operate during the peak summer weeks until September.

Basic each way fares from £79 are available to book from today on www.ba.com/londoncity

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BA launches seven new routes from Manchester this Summer

BRITISH Airways is to launch seven new routes from Manchester Airport this summer and three new destinations from Manchester’s sister airport Stansted. 

From May the airline will begin summer-only direct flights from Manchester to the popular Spanish sunspots of Alicante, Malaga, Ibiza and Palma, the Greek island of Mykonos, Nice in the South of France and a weekly service to London City Airport. 

In addition new flights from Stansted, part of the Manchester Airport Group, will launch to Florence, Geneva and Nice. 

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BA Island Challenge

Mercedesz at Peel Castle, Isle of Man

RESIDENTS on the Isle of Man were asked to put their local knowledge to the test recently as the British Airways island challenge took off. The airline teamed up with 3FM Radio for a unique treasure hunt to promote the return British Airways flights between the #IsleofMan and London City Airport. 

Luke Hayhoe, British Airways’ general manager commercial and customer said: “We had a fantastic two days visiting some of the most beautiful parts of the Isle of Man. We visited local travel agents and also had fun with the radio station testing people’s local knowledge. “The Isle of Man-London City route is very important to us and we always welcome the opportunity to get involved with the local community to promote the flights.” 

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Up in the air …

LONDON CITY has become the first airport in the UK to play music to passengers in security screening areas. The airport taken the advice of music psychologists from the University of Sheffield, who say that background music might provide a positive distraction for passengers in security areas. The airport has now started playing a series of tunes to its passengers, including Adele and Ed Sheeran.

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London City Airport gets green light for expansion

LONDON CITY AIRPORT has received planning permission for expansion which will enable it to handle 6.5 million passengers by 2025 and inject £1.5 billion each year into the economy. 

The City Airport Development Programme is a £344 million privately-funded investment which includes plans for seven additional aircraft stands, a parallel taxiway, and passenger terminal extension.

The development will transform the airport, one of East London’s largest employers in London’s Royal Docks, enabling the airport to welcome quieter, next-generation aircraft and add more capacity. Last year the airport, which opened in 1987, handled 4.3 million passengers.


The construction phase of development will create 500 jobs and a further 1,600 jobs once completed. Under the plans, the airport can add approximately a further 32,000 flights by 2025, movements which are already permitted, helping to unlock more air capacity within London’s airport system in advance of a new runway for the South-East of England.


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New flights to Italy from Britain and Ireland

ALITALIA has introduced a fifth daily flight from London City to Milan Linate. www.alitalia.com 

RYANAIR is to increase frequencies to Bologna with two weekly flights from Dublin and Edinburgh for the 2016 winter season. www.ryanair.com

EASYJET will introduce new flights for the 2016 winter season from Bristol, London Luton, and Manchester to Turin to facilitate winter sport tourism in Piedmont. www.easyjet.com

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Up in the air …

AER LINGUS has launched an express bag drop service designed to make travel as seamless as possible. It enables travellers to self-tag and check-in their bags once they have their boarding card printed or downloaded to their mobile device. In a matter of minutes or even seconds, Aer Lingus passengers can complete the check-in process, deposit their bag, and proceed towards departures. The Aer Lingus check-in area at Dublin airport has more than 40 self-service express bag drop kiosks.

THE ANNUAL ACI EUROPE Best Airport Awards have been announced. London City Airport was highly commended in the ‘under 5 million passenger’ category, while the winner of the ‘5-10 million passenger’ category was Glasgow Airport.

The highly commended airport in the ’10-25 million passenger’ category was Edinburgh. In the ‘over 25 million passengers’ category, London Heathrow was the winner, and the Accessible Airport Award was won by Dublin.

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Up in the air . . .

BLUE AIR has announced a thrice-weekly flight service from Birmingham to Cluj, the second largest city in Romania, which will start in December with fares from £19.99 one-way including taxes and charges. 

BRITISH AIRWAYS is offering 16 direct flights a week from Berlin-Tegel to London City Airport. ‘With up to 11 London flights a day – London City, Heathrow and Stansted – we are complying with demand to and from Berlin,’ says Katja Selle, at BA.

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British Airways announces new route to Alicante from London City

BRITISH AIRWAYS has announced plans to launch a new service to #Alicante from London City Airport this summer. 

The new flights to the popular holiday destination on Spain’s Costa Blanca will operate four times a week for 10 weeks from the end of June.

With the launch of the Alicante flights, BA will serve 33 destinations direct from the Docklands, where the airline is also launching new services to Berlin and Hamburg this summer.

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Flybe to run London-Cardiff ‘rescue’ flights

#FLYBE will run up to four ‘rescue flights’ on weekdays – and two a day on weekends – between Cardiff and London City Airport, later this year, when the planned six-week closure of the Severn Tunnel (from September 12 to October 21) will disrupt rail services to and from South Wales.

Fares, one way, start from £34.99 inclusive of taxes and charges.

Vincent Hodder, Flybe’s chief revenue officer says: ‘We have pulled out all the stops to ensure that customers wanting to travel between the capital cities of Wales and England still have convenient and affordable travel options during the period when the Severn Tunnel will be closed and there will be no direct rail link.

‘We hope these rescue flights will help to alleviate the travel woes of the thousands of passengers displaced by the loss of the region’s direct rail services.’

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BA increases German flights

BRITISH AIRWAYS has announced plans to expand its German network and aircraft fleet at London City Airport this summer with two new routes and an additional Embraer 190 jet. 

BA will launch new thrice-a-day flights to both #Berlin and #Hamburg. Together with the existing services to Dusseldorf and Frankfurt, the airline will operate more than 70 flights each week to Germany direct from London’s Docklands.

This is the first time that British Airways has operated to Berlin from London City. The new route will start on June 19 on an Embraer jet, with each-way hand baggage only fares from £49. While Hamburg is currently served by British Airways’ franchise partner SunAir, starting May 8 BA will serve the route using larger Saab 2000 aircraft, more than doubling the number of seats available. Each-way hand baggage only fares are available from £79.

Luke Hayhoe, British Airways’ general manager commercial and customer, London City, said: ‘Germany is a very important market for us and these new routes give both our business and leisure customers a much wider choice of destinations with a well-timed schedule.’

The airline has recently announced more seats to European holiday hotspots this summer from Heathrow (to Athens, Lisbon and Gibraltar) and from Gatwick (to Tenerife, Lanzarote and Funchal).

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Cork-London City flights to start

IRISH airline CityJet is to start flights between Cork and London City Airport in October.

The airline says it will fly three times daily on week-days, with its first flight from Cork departing at 7.40am. There will be one flight on Saturdays and two on Sundays from Cork.

CityJet’s executive chairman Pat Byrne said: ‘We believe the Cork to London City route has significant potential and indications are that there are many travellers, both business and leisure, who want the fast access and hassle-free experience that London City Airport offers.’

The Dublin-based airline said that Cork and the greater Munster region had significant potential for flights directly into London.

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