London City Airport

With a new firm order for 30 Airbus A220-300s and purchase rights for a further 20, AirBaltic is positioned to grow its fleet to 100 of the type by 2030.

Embraer has received Steep Approach Certification for the E195-E2 at London City and will be the largest aircraft able to operate from the airport.

Crossover jets may be becoming more popular among airlines, but there is one airport where almost the entire schedule is comprised of the small airliners.

Flights between Vilnius and London City will continue despite the current PSO contract for the route coming to an end.

The London City-based airline's future fleet rests on whether its home airport is given the green light to extend its opening hours.

A local authority has unanimously rejected London City Airport's application to increase its passenger cap and extend its opening hours.

The UK government announced a package of reforms that tighten July 3, including a phased removal of free carbon allowances for aviation in 2026.

The Danish carrier was shuttered from March 2020 to September 2022.

LCY will become the second London airport from which BA serves Aberdeen from.

The carrier is relaunching service on the key LCY route, but other routes from Billund remain grounded.

The proposal is part of a plan to grow capacity through more flexibility rather than building new infrastructure.

Three routes targeting business traffic will begin in March using leased E190s, while authorization has been secured for service to Buenos Aires.

Routes details the latest new route announcements, as well as the services returning to carriers’ networks.

Barcelona and Thessaloniki are among the destinations joining the British Airways subsidiary’s network.

The subsidized routes are part of the UK government’s effort to restore regional, domestic connectivity.

Blue Air’s expansion from Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca and Iasi, Flybondi restarting international service, and Frontier Airlines launching flights from New York Stewart are among the latest route announcements and services resuming.

A more lenient tax regime will encourage airlines to create new routes, bringing in additional revenue to the country’s airport infrastructure and tourism supply chain.

Two new domestic leisure routes are being added to the carrier’s network, while capacity is being increased on services to 13 European vacation destinations.

Daily flight operations are now being controlled from a room at the National Air Traffic Services (NATS) area control center at Swanwick more than 100 miles away.

Two new seasonal routes are being launched in June as the airport gears up to welcome back key domestic services.

Two routes are being launched from the city, located on southern France’s Mediterranean coast.

Two new short-haul routes will start from Zurich and three from Geneva this summer, but the airline does not expect demand to pick-up until the third quarter of the year.

London City Airport has declared its new parallel taxiway operational, significantly increasing the utility of the facility.

The airline, a favorite of business passengers, sees demand evaporate because of COVID-19.

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