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Where does British Airways fly from London City Airport, as it celebrates 25 years?

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This month, British Airways is celebrating 25 years of flying from London City Airport, so we thought it was a good time to highlight how easy it is to fly from the airport and where you can go.

Yesterday we looked at how smooth the airport experience can be when you fly on British Airways from London City Airport.

Today, we want to look at where you can fly with BA Cityflyer and what it is like onboard.

Where does British Airways fly from London City Airport?

British Airways is operating to 21 destinations from London City Airport during the winter season, which started on the last Sunday in October.

If you book by 11th November, for travel before 31st March 2025, you can save 25% on various city break routes from London City Airport. Florence is as low as £57 each way and Berlin as low as £65 each way.

What does BA offer at London City?

These routes are all operated by BA Cityflyer, a separate British Airways subsidiary.

It operates a fleet of Embraer E190 aircraft. These are smaller planes that are able to take off and land from London City’s short runways.

The E190s feature 2-2 seating (image below) in both business class (Club Europe) and economy (Euro Traveller). The entire fleet had new seating, pictured below, installed this year.

Service on board differs to British Airways flights from Heathrow and Gatwick. Economy passengers are offered a snack and a soft / alcoholic / hot drink, just like the old days on Heathrow and Gatwick services. Club Europe passengers receive the same service as they would on a mainline flight, albeit from a different catering company to Heathrow flights.

There are no lounges at London City Airport – none at all. It’s not BA being mean and refusing to pay! However, there is no need to arrive too early for a flight from London City, especially as the airport has now switched to the new ‘keep your laptop in your bag’ security scanners.

BA Cityflyer promotes a “From check-in to gate in 20 minutes” message to highlight to consumers how seamless and efficient their offering is.

BA CityFlyer new seating

British Airways routes from London City Airport

The following information is based on BA’s schedules for Winter 2024/2025.

No flights depart London City Airport between 1pm on Saturday and 11am on Sunday so flight schedules can be a little odd at weekends.

Here are your options – note that not all flights operate for the entire winter season which runs to the end of March:

  • Amsterdam
  • Barcelona
  • Belfast City
  • Bergerac
  • Berlin
  • Chambery
  • Dublin
  • Edinburgh
  • Florence
  • Frankfurt
  • Geneva
  • Glasgow
  • Ibiza
  • Malaga
  • Milan
  • Nice
  • Palma de Mallorca
  • Prague
  • Rotterdam
  • San Sebastian
  • Zurich

The biggest changes for the winter schedule is the replacement of summer sun routes with popular ski destinations such as Geneva and Chambery.

Book on ba.com by 11th November to take advantage of the current 25% discount on selected routes.

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Comments (36)

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  • Alasdair Wylie says:
    10 Nov10 November 06:57

    One frustration is that BA used to fly more or less daily in summer from LCY to Quimper in Brittany , extremely convenient, but dropped the route in I think 2023.

    • Florian says:
      10 Nov10 November 09:54

      For once, it’s not their fault. Covid killed the airport in Quimper. They could have moved their flights to Brest instead. Volotea goes there from Gatwick but no avios redemption opportunities 🙁

  • Kenny says:
    10 Nov10 November 07:02

    What are London City bag drop times?

  • James Wyatt says:
    10 Nov10 November 08:19

    We did it the other day. Staggeringl. You no time at all. No lounge but the other place is fine

  • Lee says:
    10 Nov10 November 08:27

    I do like the ba service much better at City than at Heathrow, Gatwick etc. Heathrow ba is terrible

  • Stu_C says:
    10 Nov10 November 08:33

    As the article was sponsored by the airline you managed to overlook the fact that the new seating was fitted in order to ram in an extra two rows of seats.

    • Barrel for Scraping says:
      10 Nov10 November 09:29

      That is the case but before the refit (and still the case before the emergency exit) the legroom was much better than usual. They deliberately configured their aircraft to be under 100 seats in order to not require an extra crew member.

      The question is now why are they happy needing an extra crew member on each flight when they weren’t previously? Is buy on board coming? When Alex Cruz launched M&S on-board they originally said it was coming soon to CityFlyer but it never happened due to the difficulties in doing the service with just two cabin crew. The new part pre-order, part buy on board service has not been announced for the LCY routes but they must be hoping to justify the additional cost of the extra crew member in some way.

      • Nick says:
        10 Nov10 November 11:26

        The current plan for the extra crew member is to remove the cap on CE cabin size on shorter flights. Whether it works is up to customers…

    • Rob says:
      10 Nov10 November 11:04

      No change ahead of the exit rows though. In fact, as the new seats are slimmer, you get a little more legroom up front.

  • Clive Barbour says:
    10 Nov10 November 08:50

    Checked Prague flights for January and July and it says “Sorry, we don’t fly from London City to Prague”

  • Paul says:
    10 Nov10 November 08:57

    It was interesting to hear that you got an extra search and it took so little time for that extra search to be conducted. A huge problem with UK airports +Especially Heathrow and Manchester) is that if your bag gets selected, there is usually only one (exceptionally grumpy and intentionally slow) person to search all the huge amounts of bags searched. This can take up to half an hour and more (the change over from T5 to T3 is notoriously bad).
    We seem to pull out many more bags, without the orresponding number of staff.
    I travel with the same – businessy- items and get pulled out about half the time, never happens on the return. So ts great to hear City Airport being well staffed!

  • Cristian says:
    10 Nov10 November 09:19

    They definitely need to add weekend flights.

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