Originally Posted by
AirportPlanner1
Actually that’s where you’re not quite right. Yes by and large City caters to premium and business travellers supplemented with a large (and I’d say growing) contingent of mostly higher end leisure travellers. However, if you ever search for long-haul flights from London it is very common for LCY to come up at the bargain basement end.
I would suggest the sort of people that book a 26 hour journey to China for £400 are exactly the sort that would book a £10 flight to Spain at 6:30am and expect to kip on the floor while they wait.
LCY actually put out a press release recently saying that their passengers are now 50/50 split between leisure and business. If you regularly fly from LCY you'll see lots of passengers travelling on cheap fares to Africa - especially connecting with KLM to ACC and LOS and now TAP as well. It's not like the old days of all business travelers.