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London City Airport Launches Public Consultation

London City Airport has launched a consultation on plans to extend the airport’s operating hours, including all day on Saturdays.

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Aerial view of runway and taxiways of London City Airport. — London City Airport (Image Credit: London City Airport)

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

Skywork Airlines exits London City; Fly VLM returns

Skywork Airlines is to suspend London City – Basel from Sunday 29 October 2017. VLM Airlines returns to London City – Antwerp from Monday 30 October.

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FlyVLM Fokker 50 turboprop (Image Credit: VLM Airlines)

The great merry go round of route changes at London City continues.

Skywork Airlines suspends Basel

Skywork Airlines is to withdraw from London City with the suspension of its route to Basel from Sunday 29 October 2017.

Any one with bookings after this date will be entitled to a full refund. Basel will continue to be served by BA from Heathrow, easyJet from Luton and Gatwick and Ryanair from Stansted. The news was confirmed in a press release last week.

VLM returns to London City

On a more positive note, VLM Airlines is to return to London City.

VLM will take over London City – Antwerp from CityJet from Monday 30 October 2017. VLM will fly to Antwerp three times daily Monday – Wednesday, four times daily Thursday – Friday and twice daily on Sundays.

Flights will be operated with a 50 seat Fokker 50 turboprop aircraft.

London City receives planning permission to increase flight capacity

London City airport has received planning permission from Newham Council to make investments in its infrastructure to expand capacity at the airport.

London City airport say that additional runway capacity will enable larger aircraft to operate from the airport and enable the number of flights at the airport to increase from 70,000 to 110,000 (a cap imposed by Newham Council).

The development originally proposed by the airport included adding seven aircraft parking stands, extending the terminal building and building a new eastern passenger pier and a new passenger forecourt in front of the terminal building.
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