Aircraft develop – and the BAE146 won’t still be flying in 30 years time!
You never know it might be still in service 🙂 look at the B-52 started flying in the 50’s its still going to be in service for many years to come.
I’m afraid you’ve got the wrong end of the stick, the people round here despise the Jets and the A318 will anger them as its louder than current jets and I fear a severe uprising amongst locals against the airport.
I’m pro-anything that develops London City, but look at its name CITY, its in the heart of the city and I’m highlighting that the locals are not fans of jets and another one will upset them even more
They live in the city they get noise what do they want the quite ness off the North Yorkshire Moors 😡
If you want to reach cities like Antwerp, Dundee, Liverpool, Bremen, Berne and Lugano, then London City is the only jumping off point from London. Flights are operated mainly by four-engined BAe 146 jets or
twin-engined F50 turbo-props. London City is different from the capital’s other airports. For a start it’s owned by an entrepreneur (Ireland’s Dermot Desmond) rather than a large corporation and, secondly, its route development is driven by demand. “Customer pressure makes a new route possible,” says Richard Gooding. The furthest destination currently served is Lugano in Swiss Ticino. “Routes planned between now and the end of next year include Copenhagen, Glasgow, Madrid, Milan, Newcastle, Stockholm and Vienna,” he adds. Some of these routes are outside the range of the existing planes so the airport is looking to new models. The 100-seater Airbus A318/319 series is one plane the airport could consider. It would enable an operator to fly non-stop on longer stages like Madrid (currently the most requested route and one outside the range of existing planes).
“There’s a 50/50 chance this plane will come here. Flying the Airbus into London City isn’t a problem,” says Gooding. “The problem is what you do with the plane on the ground. [Although the Airbus would hold roughly the same as the Bae 146] it is bigger but taller than the existing planes and our taxi-ways and parking spaces were originally laid out for more compact models.”
Corporate planes face no such problems. Says Gooding:“60 percent of all corporate planes can land here, with Netjets being one of our best customers. Corporate traffic now comprises 10 percent of our total traffic.” The Jet Centre is at the London end of the airport and can be reached swiftly and discreetly. Unlike at Heathrow, executive planes are welcome. “We operate nine-seater Citation Excel jets from here on sectors up to 4.5 hours,” says George Galanopolous, managing director of London Executive Aviation, a major user of the Jet Centre with 50 arrivals and departures a day. “We tend to fly to destinations not covered by the normal flights from there. So that means Athens, Moscow, Algiers and Tripoli. The most popular destinations are Nice and Marbella. Main customers are banks and financial institutions in the City and Canary Wharf. Leisure customers are becoming increasingly common and now represent about 30 percent of the total.
James
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