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London City Airport has launched a consultation on plans to extend its operating hours, including all day on Saturdays.
The airport, which first opened in 1987, has long been a popular choice for passengers seeking to avoid the crowds of Gatwick and Heathrow.
Due to the airport’s location in London’s Royal Docks, it has a number of operating restrictions to limit noise for local residents and those who live under its flight paths.
These include:
- Only 6 aircraft movements are allowed in the first half hour of operations, 2 between 06:30 and 06:45 and 4 between 06:45 and 06:59
- A maximum of 400 aircraft movements a year for delayed flights are allowed between 22:00 and 22:30 Sunday – Friday and 12:30 and 13:00 on Saturday
- An 8 hour night time curfew on all flights between 22:30 and 06:30
- A 24 hour weekend closure between 12:30 on Saturday and 12:30 on Sunday
- Limits on the number of flights at weekends and on public holidays
- A maximum limit of 6.5 million passengers and 111,000 aircraft movements a year