LONDON CITY - 2

[WHBM]

Appears to have sneaked in 90 minutes ahead of the first Embraer !

[RJ100]

First Emb170 is still over ther water on the delivery flight. G-LCYD is due to arrive EXT late Sat night.

[DutchBird-757]

Change that. First Embraer most likely to arrive in LCY will be G-LCYE iso YD. Heard delivery was around SEP 8 for YE. (all due to birdstrike on delivery ex REC)

In the meantime a picture I took today of the A318 at stand 24. Click on the picture to see more. (opens in new window) Will the A318 remain there until the first flight on SEP 29th? Can't see LCY airfield ops 'lending' a stand for weeks to an idle aicraft. Any video's of it doing it's business out of LCY?



I must say it looks really good!

[BAladdy]

Originally Posted by DutchBird-757

Will the A318 remain there until the first flight on SEP 29th?

No it is not due to remain at LCY. Just noticed on a thread on airliners.net that the aircraft is due to depart LCY today for it's first trial flight across the atlantic.

The aircraft is due to depart LCY as BA9152C at 12:50 arriving SNN 14:15 once refuelled and those onboard have cleared immigration in SNN the flight is due to depart SNN 15:00 at arrive JFK 17:15 local. Which is the same schedule that BA001 will operate once the service starts. The aircraft is then expected to return to LCY from JFK the same evening arriving LCY on Wednesday.

[Nakata77]

Video of A318 BA at LCY

Video of the landing, seems like a shaky cam though if you can bear with it. Other videos on youtube of the same aircarft too taking off.

YouTube - BRITISH AIRWAYS AIRBUS A318 AT LCY

[angels]

Sure I saw it landing about an hour ago. Heard a different engine noise looked up saw a bit of wing disappear behind 1 Canada Square and reckoned it was the 318.

Anyone confirm?

[firstchoice7e7]

G-EUNA just took off from LCY, so assume doing training today.

[WHBM]

Yes, been doing circuits this morning.

Is it the first time on 09 rather than 27 ?

[angels]

Cheers.

I imagine they'll want to get a few crews up and running ahead of the start-up.

[Neon Circuits]

Touch and go's!

Parked a a stand near the threshold of 09 and witnessed it performing touch and go's - I think LCY Tower weren't that keen!

[MikeStanton]

the Airbus A318 was again doing circuits this morning, sure looked big coming over shooters hill on its downwind leg for 09 at 2000ft (1600ft above me!)

[HH6702]

Spotting logs

Hi

Can anybody tell me where i can find the logs for london city airport.
I was down at tower bridge for the afternoon but couldnt read the regs off.

Does anybody have the log for friday 11th september from 13:00 until 18:00?

BA's A318 looks very nice saw it a few times doing some curcuits


many thanks

[ALLMCC]

You should find it here - just input LCY in the "route contains" field and enter the date

ACARS database search - acarsd ACARS Decoder for Linux and Windows

[BA318]

FlyBaboo are launching GVA-LCY with Dash8-400Q

11 Weekly from 25 October.

[BAladdy]

Originally Posted by BA318

FlyBaboo are launching GVA-LCY with Dash8-400Q

It is always good to hear of a new operator starting up a route from LCY.

From December there will be 62 weekly flights from LCY to GVA.

LX will operate 43 weekly flights ( 7 x Daily M-Fr, 4 x Sat, 4 x Sun) using their RJ100's. BA's will operate 8 x weekly ( 1 x daily M-Fr, 2 x Sun) with a mix of RJ100 and E170 aircraft and F7 will operate 11 x weekly flights using a DH4.

That is a total of around 5,600 seats a week. Is there enough traffic from LCY to GVA to sustain 62 weekly flights through the winter??

[globetrotter79]

For what it is worth, I believe you'll find that the 'middle' operation of the day will depart LCY, transit through GVA and continue to Venice.

The operation, then, is:
Morning: GVA-LCY-GVA-VCE
Afternoon: VCE-GVA-LCY-GVA

[WHBM]

Originally Posted by globetrotter79

For what it is worth, I believe you'll find that the 'middle' operation of the day will depart LCY, transit through GVA and continue to Venice.

An interesting repetition of something from LCY's dim and dstant past, the Conti-Flug flight to Berlin Tempelhof (one of the earliest ever jet flights from LCY) had a similar mid-day extension to Venice, marketed as a through service (I think LCY and Venice were Conti's only two scheduled destinations).

Certainly didn't work then, number of through pax was typically just a few, and sometimes not even that.

[BAladdy]

BA looking at adding IBZ and PMI from LCY

British Airways May Add Majorca, Ibiza at London City (Update1) - Bloomberg.com

[davidjohnson6]

Does this risk an impact on the short check-in time at LCY when a much higher proportion of pax are carrying large bags, or possibly don't fly regularly and need longer to be processed by security and get their backsides to a gate and board ?

[MikeStanton]

Saw the A318 doing touch and go's again today, just wondered if anyone knows if the Embraer 170 will be doing simmilar training exercises, and if so when??

thanks

Mike