Tags: London City Airport

London City reveals new ‘fly-through’ animation

London City Airport’s new two-minute animation offers a glimpse of the future passenger experience at the airport, London’s most central. The video fly-through, created by the visualization team at design and engineering consultancy Atkins, conveys what the passenger experience will be like at London City Airport following a £500m (US$620m) transformation, with major new facilities […]

London City Airport connects to Vilnius for first time

From today, one of LOT’s newly acquired Embraer 190s will operate between Vilnius and London City, linking the Lithuanian capital city with London’s most central airport for the very first time. To mark the occasion, Lithuanian youth players from the local Newham All Star Sports Academy (NASSA) basketball team attended the airport to welcome the […]

London City Airport awarded top spot for best airport handling under 5 million at Skytrax World Airport Awards 2019

For the third year running, London City Airport has been named the world’s best airport of its size in the Skytrax World Airport Awards 2019, and the 26th best overall airport on the planet, edging two spots up the rankings. The airport topped the Best Airports 2019 category for airports handling under 5 million passengers […]

London City Airport wins prestigious passenger satisfaction award

London City Airport has been awarded the title of Best Airport in Europe for airports in the 2 to 5 million passengers per annum category in the prestigious Airport Council International’s Airport Service Quality (ASQ) awards. ASQ is the world’s leading benchmarking survey with over 380 airports participating across 90 countries. Over the course of […]

LOT Launches New Connection to London City from Budapest

From today, LOT now flies directly from Budapest to London City (LCY) twice daily, twelve times a week. To operate this special route, LOT acquired four brand-new Embraer 190 jets, joining existing flights between London City and Warsaw. From May 1st the air carrier will also launch flights to LCY from Vilnius. Flights from Budapest […]

London City Airport releases concept images of its new terminal interior that embodies 21st century London

London City Airport has released concept images depicting the interior of its 51,000m2 new terminal. The images show how the customer experience at London’s most central airport will be completely transformed, once its £500m development is complete in 2022. The new terminal design will reflect 21st century London, supported by new shops, restaurants, bars and […]

London City Airport records busiest week ever with over 100,000 passengers and prepares for Easter getaway traffic

Figures published by London City Airport today reveal that last week (Monday 19th March to Sunday 25th March) was the busiest week ever in the history of the airport, eclipsing the 100,000 passenger mark for the first time. Over the seven days, a total of 101,336 passengers either departed from, or arrived to, London City […]

London City Airport awards BAM Nuttall major contract for concrete deck extension

London City Airport has awarded a contract to BAM Nuttall for a new 75,000 m2 concrete deck extension. The deck is an important first stage of construction, as part of the £480m City Airport Development Programme, supporting new infrastructure including aircraft stands, a parallel taxiway and a world-class passenger terminal extension. The Development Programme will […]

London City Airport wins Skytrax award for Best Airport in the World under 5m passengers

London City Airport has been named the best airport of its size in the world and the 28th best overall airport on the planet. The recognition came at the Skytrax World Airport Awards 2018 on Wednesday 21 March, where the airport won the Best Airport category for airports handling up to 5 million passengers per […]