New London City Airport boss announced

Declan Collier, the CEO of the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA), has announced he will leave in April to take up the role of CEO at London City Airport. He will replace Richard Gooding, who is to step down from his position after 15 years as London City’s chief executive but remain on the board as a non-executive director.

Mr Collier joined the DAA as CEO in April 2005. During his time at the authority he has helped to deliver a €1.2 billion capital investment programme at Dublin Airport including its flagship new Terminal 2, which opened in late 2010 and which has moved Dublin airport into the top five airports within its peer group of 5 - 25 million passengers per year airports.

He said: ‘I am really looking forward to my new role at London City, and to playing my part in the future growth and development of the airport following the great work carried out by Richard Gooding and his team.'

Roy Griffins, chairman of London City Airport, added: ‘We are delighted to have secured as our new CEO somebody of Declan Collier’s caliber and experience. He has led DAA through a transformational period in terms of its infrastructure and business culture.'

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This airport since the olympic games has proved to be a winner !
Yes i think there is more that can be done to widen the appeal of the airport ie bus plane connections to more uk airports ie birmingham southampton etc.
It be another 10 years before things really move on because of the lack of aircraft that are quite and STOL abilities
 
Yes i think there is more that can be done to widen the appeal of the airport ie bus plane connections to more uk airports ie birmingham southampton etc.

I'm not entirely sure what you are suggesting. Could you elaborate?

My apologies if I'm being thick. :s_sorry

Many thanks.
 
London City Airport adopts solar lighting

The new solar-powered lights represent a £100,000 investment for London City Airport.

London City Airport has invested £10,000 in two new solar-powered runway guard lights.

The solar-powered lighting systems, commonly referred to as Wig-Wags, will serve as a continuous 24-hour LED warning system. The lights are capable of running for 120 days without re-charging and will significantly slash the airport’s electricity expenditure.

Full Story: http://www.solarpowerportal.co.uk/news/ ... hting_2356
 
It's a shame Infinite Flight can't add some better graphics for urban areas. Realistic graphics would be so cool.

Great pictures by the way. :LOL:
 
New owners

It's reported that Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan will be the new owners of London City Airport at a purchase price of £2 billion.

OTPP owns Bristol Airport and also has stakes in Birmingham, Brussels and Copenhagen airports.

http://www.travelweekly.co.uk/articles/ ... ondon-city
 
My sister flew out of London City on Wednesday to Zurich with Swiss Air and returned Thursday. She flew on their new CS100 aircraft and complimented the aircraft saying it was very nice inside. She also said that Swiss provided great service.
She enjoyed travelling through London City and Zurich airports but she said if Manchester had better timed flights she would've used them instead of travelling down to London.
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Climate protestor gets on board aircraft as passenger this morning then stands up to make speech as aircraft reaches the end of the runway. It had to return to stand and said passenger was removed. Video embedded in linked report.
 
Co2 has been significantly higher historically so even if burning fossil fuel is increasing Co2 the world has managed to balance itself throughout it's history. One of the most important gases on the planet, Co2 only accounts for 0.04 percent (400ppm) of that the percentage of man - made contributions to Co2 levels are negligible. The standard IPCC graph showing Co2 levels apparently spiralling out of control is completely misleading. What many of these protesters seem to forget is Co2 is effectively plant food as plants can't live without Co2.

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Climate protestor gets on board aircraft as passenger this morning then stands up to make speech as aircraft reaches the end of the runway. It had to return to stand and said passenger was removed. Video embedded in linked report.
Ironically adding more emissions to the environment as the extra has to taxi back to the terminal and then again to the runway possibly even effecting incoming aircraft who may have had to hold or divert during this.
 
Ironically adding more emissions to the environment as the extra has to taxi back to the terminal and then again to the runway possibly even effecting incoming aircraft who may have had to hold or divert during this.
And they are doing that by their street protests that cause mammoth traffic jams.
 
The Daily Telegraph have done a survey on all the major UK airports on passengers experience .......London City , is awarded n.o 1

Ranked: these are the UK’s best (and worst) airports for 2022​

Planning your next trip abroad? Here are the terminals you should be flying from this year
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The UK’s airports haven’t exactly been the chillest places to be recently. What with flight cancellations, endless queues and passport issues, getting away on holiday has become something of a trial, to say the least. That means anything you can do to make your trip less stressful will be very welcome indeed. Like, say, choosing the best and most reliable airport possible.
Happily, The Daily Telegraph has just come up with a brand-new ranking of the UK’s best (and worst) places to fly from in 2022. The study’s authors took the UK’s 16 busiest airports, and looked at everything from the design of the terminals to the wifi connection to the likelihood of delays.

So where came top? That would be London City Airport. Sure, it doesn’t serve as wide a range of destinations as Heathrow or Manchester, but it is a hell of a lot more chic. It gained points for its ample number of charging points (1,771, to be precise) and the fact that nearly 90 percent of its flights arrived on time. Pretty damn good.

Next up was Gatwick Airport, scoring highly for the number of destinations served (192) and the range of nearby hotels, slipping up slightly due to its lack of decent restaurants. Heathrow and Newcastle came joint third: the former for its stunning architecture, and the latter for its cheap journey into the city centre from the airport. Newcastle was, however, the only airport that doesn’t offer water refill stations.

In joint last place are Bristol and Leeds Bradford. The former has an extortionate drop-off charge of £7 (as in, the money you have to pay literally just to drop someone off at the airport). As for Leeds Bradford, it ranked poorly due to the the number of cancelled flights; more than 2 percent of all trips were axed last year.

Wondering where to book your next flight from? Here are the UK’s best (and worst) airports for 2022:

1. London City

2. Gatwick

3. Heathrow

= Newcastle

5. East Midlands

6. Luton

7. Birmingham

8. Liverpool

9. Edinburgh

10. Aberdeen

11. Manchester

12. Stansted

13. Glasgow

14. Belfast International

15. Bristol

= Leeds Bradford

There are quite a few airports missing no CFW , SOU , EXT, BHD, DSA

( taken from Time Out Magazine )
 
Flights out of LBA are not cancelled that often and if they are then it’s usually down to weather or if an aircraft has gone tech (though most of the time they don’t cancel the flight they use a different aircraft). I think that survey is a little harsh on LBA.
 

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