Just having a look at the new schedules for the summer, I hadn't quite appreciated the extent of the new based operators. Quite apart from the other airlines there are 8 British Airways and 7 Cityjet/Air France 146/RJ jets now assigned all day to LCY schedules. For an airport which hitherto had little in the way of based operators this seems a notable change. Presumably from next week, when the full new Cityjet schedules start, there will be pressures like we have not seen before.
Wondering how much will last though. With three major carriers on Zurich, where until recently there was only one, it's all a big change.
From 0700 to 0859 there are 64 movements scheduled, 32 per hour; apart from squeezing the exec jets at these times it seems very much on the limits both for runway and stand capacity. Does this put LCY in the top half dozen airports in the UK for peak hour movements ?