Where does British Airways fly from London City Airport?

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• TimM says:

  26 Feb26 February 05:42

  I regard the Cityflyer Embraer E190 as the poor-person’s Concorde – it has roughly the same cabin size and layout and if you fly in Business, the champagne is free-flowing.

  • BJ says:

    26 Feb26 February 05:48

    I love them but I’m obviously not keen on dense refit. I like any 2-2 cabins, love ATR-72, really give the sensation of flying unlike large jets.

  • Tom says:

    26 Feb26 February 06:21

    The A318 from LCY was a poor person’s Concorde, this is just a plane that shows how flying shorthaul was before LCCs entered the scene…

    • daveinitalia says:

      26 Feb26 February 08:39

      It shared the flight number and went to New York but Concorde never had pre-clearance or lie flat seats.Concorde had 2-2 seating, a better pitch than a typical short haul aircraft, so I can see why TimM calls it the poor person’s Concorde.
      Of course free flowing champagne is not all it’s cracked up to be, the stuff on Concorde was much better than the cheap stuff you get in CE these days.

      • TimM says:

        26 Feb26 February 10:26

        Daveinitalia, make it a Bucks Fizz and you won’t notice the difference.

• BJ says:

  26 Feb26 February 05:43

  I’m not sure there is much value in this series except perhaps for the laziest readers, and it’ll require continuous maintenance if it is to stay accurate. There are several web sites that allow us to search direct flights from any airport and allow us to filter by airline, country etc. On top of that, if EDI is anything to go by, individual airport web sites probably mostly offer same capability from their airport.

  • david says:

    26 Feb26 February 06:10

    A lot of value for me tbh. Also is “No flights depart London City Airport between 1pm on Saturday and 11am on Sunday” contractual due to noise?

    • Rob says:

      26 Feb26 February 06:41

      Yes

    • Steven McG says:

      26 Feb26 February 06:51

      The airport is closed Saturday afternoons and Sunday mornings as part of an agreement with the local council. There are also restrictions:limits on flights later in the evening and before 7am for the same reason. A public inquiry is underway following an appeal made by the airport after a planning request for Saturday afternoon and more early morning flights was turned down.

      • BA Flyer IHG Stayer says:

        26 Feb26 February 08:31

        It is more than an agreement but a legal condition within the planning permission for the airport

  • Rob says:

    26 Feb26 February 06:42

    It’s not aimed at you!

    • BJ says:

      26 Feb26 February 07:00

      I read it anyway 🙂

  • Tim says:

    26 Feb26 February 07:18

    Very vauable for me, as the list of destinations on the London City Airport website is poorly maintained, saying they could connect me to a few European cities with BA which appeared not to be the case when I went to BA.com.

  • Reney says:

    26 Feb26 February 08:18

    Very helpful for me too, happy to be considered as one of the “laziest readers”.

  • BBbetter says:

    26 Feb26 February 09:53

    Ah the usual BJ who thinks the world revolves around him. Anything not relevant to him mustn’t be relevant to others.

    • BJ says:

      26 Feb26 February 16:28

      Nah, it’s relevant to lot’s of people and thats totally fine with me. The main point is that to keep it relevant it has to be accurate and that will require quite frequent updating by Rob or Rhys. What I’m questioning is if the series us sufficiently valuable to merit that effort for them given the ease of finding the info from other sources. You frequent tge forums, don’t you find it frustrating the people frequently ask the same simpke questions time and again that you and others answer time and again when the abswer is already readilily available even within the HfP forum? It’s similar here, should Rob and Rhys commit to effort of keeping this series up to date and relevant. At end if the day it’s up to them but I don’t think it’s worth it given ease of finding itvelsewhere. I certainly don’t think HfP coverage needs to reflect my travel interests, these go far beyond core scope of HfP but I never mention it or lobby for for inclusion if their coverage.

      • Rob says:

        26 Feb26 February 17:26

        It’s not meant to be an article that gets updated. BA gave us the data so we thought we could use it. It won’t be re-run unless BA give us the data again or we find it somewhere else as a single drop.

• mradey says:

  26 Feb26 February 06:27

  Alcoholic drinks were available for economy passengers on my recent (Feb half term) flights to/from Malaga.

  • Steven McG says:

    26 Feb26 February 06:54

    Alcoholic drinks are part of the current service for economy passengers although it is anticipated that this may not continue following aircraft densification (and the potential of an additional member of cabin crew on each flight)?

    • BA Flyer IHG Stayer says:

      26 Feb26 February 08:35

      Once the extra seats have been fitted then there WILL be an extra member of cabin crew as there is a minimum number of cabin crew based on the number of seats on the plane and the extra 8 seats takes that number over the next threshold.

    • Jack says:

      27 Feb27 February 21:59

      The market at cityflyer is unlikely to make BOB work from there , they are legally required to have more crew owing to the plane having over 100 seats BOB will not recoup the cost of that and BA should not be penny pinching over a tiny cost to provide snacks and drinks

  • Rhys says:

    26 Feb26 February 08:59

    You’re right – I should’ve remembered from my flight to Edinburgh!

• Steven McG says:

  26 Feb26 February 06:43

  The article doesn’t seem to mention Edinburgh or Glasgow flights of which there are usually quite a high number..

  • BA Flyer IHG Stayer says:

    26 Feb26 February 08:38

    That’s because the article only covers international routes!

    • Rob says:

      26 Feb26 February 08:41

      To be fair I only just amended the text to make that clear.

  • Stankpa says:

    26 Feb26 February 14:27

    Shame that Saturday morning service from Edinburgh to City has been removed for summer schedule. It was much more convenient that Heathrow

• Inizii says:

  26 Feb26 February 06:47

  Belfast missing

• sigma421 says:

  26 Feb26 February 07:03

  Few bits of feedback

  Economy passengers can also choose an alcoholic drink! It’s pretty much the same menu as Euro Traveller before buy on board happened.

  All the domestics are missing from your list!

  • BA Flyer IHG Stayer says:

    26 Feb26 February 08:39

    Re read the second paragraph!

    • sigma421 says:

      26 Feb26 February 09:48

      It was updated after my comment! 🙂

• Jan M says:

  26 Feb26 February 07:04

  A friend recommends the connection to San Sebastian. The airport basically sticks out the river that divides France from Spain. Pretty remarkable location. Very limited schedule though. The timing has never worked for me.

  • Richie says:

    26 Feb26 February 08:35

    BTW IBeria operate MAD-EAS, so LON-MAD-EAS is possible.

• Philip says:

  26 Feb26 February 07:12

  Also the domestic flights to Belfast City, Glasgow and Edinburgh.

  The Belfast City saved my bacon yesterday. Connection from international flight at Heathrow scuppered due to fog. Remaining flights to Belfast yesterday were full. Computer put me on 2nd flight to Belfast City today (first one full). Stuff that, I got over to London City in 1 hour 20 mins and got a flight which made me only 2 hours late rather than the 20 hours late that BA’s computer wanted me to be. Just need to get the train fare and £450 flight fare (last remaining seat, Club Europe) reimbursed by BA!

  • Londonsteve says:

    26 Feb26 February 13:26

    I don’t get why BA wouldn’t offer that option to you from the get-go if they had seats available? Is it something to do with a LHR-LCY connection not being within the ticket validity?

    I take it the £450 seat wasn’t available to book for Avios at the last minute?

    • Nick says:

      26 Feb26 February 14:59

      They would have given it if asked, I’m assuming either it wasn’t previously available or OP just didn’t ask.

      • Philip says:

        28 Feb28 February 18:08

        Yes indeed Nick. They might have offered it if I had queued at the Flight Connections desk but suspect they would have said it was too tight – there was a guy seated beside me from LCY who had been rerouted that way (but he had got into LHR 4 hours before me). But if I had queued I would have missed the flight.

        This was very hairy – I was on the 13:27 Heathrow Express from T5, arrived LCY by taxi at 14:44, no security queue but my bag got checked (just when I least needed it!), arrived at gate 14:52 with the 15:05 just starting to board.

    • Philip says:

      28 Feb28 February 19:05

      LHR-LCY would have been too tight, so the computer sensible blocked it. A ‘normal’ traveller would have failed to make the connection, but from frequent travelling I knew the quickest way across.

      I didn’t think of Avios. All I wanted was the last seat before someone else grabbed it! I assumed for max possible fare it would have been fully refundable if flight missed although I only had time to check this after booking – and it was not refundable. (It was certainly the case in the past tgat this sort of ticket was refundable, even after date of travel).

      Refund claim has been submitted – hopefully fine. But would have been very tricky trying to claim £450 refund on a flight which I had missed!

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