London City Airport will re-open for flights in “late June”

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• BJ says:

  3 Jun3 June 17:45

  International flights to where?

  • planeconcrode says:

    3 Jun3 June 18:21

    Outside of the UK. 😉

    • BJ says:

      3 Jun3 June 19:27

      Oh, you mean Scotland?

      • Charlieface says:

        3 Jun3 June 23:19

        No, Geordieland 🙂

  • mr_jetlag says:

    3 Jun3 June 20:54

    Mykonos, I hope!

    • BJ says:

      3 Jun3 June 21:28

      Greece is closed to UK visitors, for the moment at least.

      • mr_jetlag says:

        3 Jun3 June 22:03

        Yes. I rolled the dice for an end July break.

      • Alex Sm says:

        5 Jun5 June 15:35

        Are you sure? My friend who works for the travel industry keeps inviting us to come, I will double check with her

• will says:

  3 Jun3 June 18:24

  I’m extremely uncomfortable with air travel resuming, if everyone opens up air travel then one outbreak is potentially everywhere before we even realise it’s happened, ie pretty much what happened with Italy during the initial spread in Europe.

  It’s more likely brits will be taking it abroad than the other way around as things stand!

  • Mr. AC says:

    3 Jun3 June 23:59

    Opening air travel doesn’t really matter, it won’t make matters worse. In the western world, we haven’t suppressed COVID, we just flattened the curve. The disease in within each country and isn’t going anywhere. Compare the charts for China / Taiwan / South Korea with any European country and you’ll see what I mean.

  • S says:

    4 Jun4 June 13:08

    The virus has proven to be an absolute non issue though.

• Colin MacKinnon says:

  3 Jun3 June 19:08

  Edinburgh and Glasgow Airports are open, not that they have a lot of flights.One BA flight a day to LHR.

  London City now decides to re-open – for domestic flights only. But will any airlines want to fly them – if BA can’t do more than one a day to LHR with its onward connections, will they even fill one a day to LCY?

  • Mr(s) Entitled says:

    3 Jun3 June 20:22

    I hear a new the route to Barnard Castle is getting a lot of interest. Talk of a Gov’t subsidy.

    • Lady London says:

      4 Jun4 June 15:49

      I heard HS2 was being extended to Barnard Castle.

• mr_jetlag says:

  3 Jun3 June 20:53

  some hope yet for my LCY-JMK getaway then!

• Stu N says:

  3 Jun3 June 22:07

  Not sure how LCY is going to manage social distancing – there are numerous pinch points in the terminal and the departure gates in particular are extremely crowded with a full E190.

  • TGLoyalty says:

    3 Jun3 June 22:30

    They won’t at 2m

  • Ian says:

    4 Jun4 June 11:03

    Airports have made it clear that this 2m social distancing nonsense can’t work – and it certainly can’t work in an aircraft. Eventually people will realise that and either make the decision to fly (like me) accepting some tiny amount of risk or they’ll decide to stay at home.

  • Andrew says:

    4 Jun4 June 11:35

    Might be easier at LCY than others thanks to the small number of flights and short check in times.

    Instigate a queuing system outside
    Don’t allow anyone in more than 1 hour before their flight
    Basically encourage people to go straight from check in to security to gate to plane without stopping

• Graham D says:

  3 Jun3 June 23:22

  Why is the leading picture for this article of an aircraft (RJ100/BAe146) retired from BA Cityflyer many years ago?!

  • Dubious says:

    5 Jun5 June 03:44

    It’s a picture of London City – why does it need to be recent?? It’s a nice picture too…

• AndyC says:

  4 Jun4 June 01:20

  “Closed since 25th March, the airline will initially open for domestic flights.”. ‘Airline’? ’Airport’, surely!

  • Rob says:

    4 Jun4 June 10:04

    Oops!

• Luca says:

  5 Jun5 June 11:20

  My LCY-FAO flights for mid July have been cancelled, Gatwick-FAO flights are showing as operating.

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