Interesting that the Air Antwerp flights operate under the KLM designator (KL211/213/215). Available for 60 EUR one way from ANR.

Shame they only have Sep and Oct available at present though.

Notably four out of those five frequency increases are my regular LCY routes. I wonder if it's me supporting them :)

Came back from Berlin (August midweek) last week and it was all seats taken (and apparently same on the other two rotations that day). Seems to be doing well. This route was my first flight ever from LCY, early 1990s, when Conti-Flug ran a 146 to Berlin Tempelhof. What a shame that inner city, LCY-equivalent, airport at the other end got closed down.

I believe Eurowings LHR-TXL is being dropped for the winter, giving BA LHR/LCY-TXL to themselves

Indeed, Eurowings is calling it quits on TXL-LHR. Although there is also easyJet to LGW from TXL and SXF, to LTN from SXF and Ryanair to STN from SXF. Plenty to choose from. SXF-LGW/STN sees almost 1m pax a year alone, btw.

Not only that - Tegel airport, the second best alternative to Tempelhof that is currently served by BA, will at some point, maybe even as soon as 2020, close and flights will move to Berlin Brandenburg International even further away from the city centre.

Colleague was on Easy, out LTN-SXF, back TXL-LGW, except Easy cancelled the late evening return rotation on that with just a couple of hours' notice, stranding everyone in Berlin for the night. Dreadfully handled. He ended up coming back with me on BA to LCY the next day. Another convert to LCY

Having a spare hour early morning, I hopped on the Berlin Underground to old Tempelhof and took some photos. The old, vast streetfront terminal building (LCY must be envious, it's way larger than theirs) is still nicely maintained outside but seemingly empty within. The Underground station entrance is just on the street corner, next to the kebab shop. For anyone who remembers going from LCY to Tempelhof on Conti-Flug all those years ago, it's still the same.

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....f2e5fe2410.jpg

Not exactly on topic but about 20 years ago I visited Tempelhof and what was sitting there but the Lufthansa JU52 - ah the nostalgia.

We heard weeks back " London City Airport hopes to add to domestic connectivity offer by welcoming back Dundee service"

Any news forthcoming about this ??????

Better now

Flybe seems to have culled DUS frm Oct 23. EDI, BHD and EXT apparently continue.

Currently Gates 1 and 2 are closed off and indeed boarded off for the works, which puts a lot of pressure on in peak periods.

Is the building work on stand 1 a permanent piece of the redevelopment? Stands 1 and 2 are being built over for....shopping? It's shops isn't it? It's always shops.

Sounds like the gates 21-24 terminal building structure then :)

Came through yesterday at 7am. Apart from noticing all the works on the new taxiway, the new structure in front of gates 1/2, etc, noticed that :

- The traffic jam from the terminal frontage area stretched solidly right down the airport approach, out past the jet centre, and back over the Connaught Bridge, dislocating the main roads of the area as well.
- Inside the terminal the queue for security had been extended by zig-zagging Tensa barriers in the area at the top of the escalators, and was all filled. 25 minutes to just to get through. Who remembers "10 minute check in" ?
- Several BA aircraft on the remote stands between the terminal and the Jet Centre, being used as Bus Stands.

The throughput from some of the landside facilities doesn't quite seem to mesh with the expansion plans currently under way.

Yes the traffic has been like that for some time early in the mornings. They often tweet that they've opened the other entrance near the Sir Steve Redgrave Bridge to allow cars to enter from the other direction.

A few weeks ago when I was travelling, they were checking boarding passes before they would let you in the terminal because it was so busy. However, I didn't yet have my boarding pass as I needed to check something with LOT. The staff at the door were not remotely friendly. I've found the old LCY has gone and now its rude staff and long queues. On the plus side my luggage from WAW-LCY arrived very quickly on sunday considering last time took about half an hour (how is that even possible in such a small airport).

Looks like LCY may be in for a difficult few days.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/lond...-a4258031.html

The trouble begins:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-50000110

Whilst I'm open to the idea of free speech, these clowns need to get real and take their frustrations out elsewhere. Whatever damage has been done to the planet is done - by humans or not - and causing disruption to flights at any airport is not going to make the slightest bit of difference to their case.

I say if these protesters are arrested, and they should be, they should be banned from flying for at least 5 years, maybe more because at the end of the day, do these people really not use aircraft themselves or do they walk everywhere ?

I heard over 800 arrests have been made. Charge them, fine them £5k each and put the money towards the cost of policing them.

And, get a job too whilst at it.

Cars shouldn't be "sat idling". Their engines should be turned off.

Bit difficult to get a job now they have a criminal record, a matter of public record any HR department will discover. I don't think any of us here would employ them.

I wonder if all the eco-protesters, first year students etc egged on by the loud-mouthed lot who know to stand slightly behind them so they in turn don't get nicked, are aware that they are just putting all their future job opportunities and expenditure on further education down the toilet.

I did notice when I came through LCY a couple of days ago that the two PCs with machine guns were stationed on the exit side of security, heading into the shops area. Quite how that could be an effective position for them escaped me.

Meanwhile I see that in the BBC news item, above, they are all sycophantic about the former Olympic cycling athlete who climbed onto the aircraft. However they fail to mention that he was subsequently banned from the sport for a doping scandal https://www.rte.ie/sport/cycling/201...ing-violation/

Apparently a blind Paralympic medalist.

Lifetime ban from even getting close to an airport, and hefty fines should be applied to these lunatics.

I sincerely hope that if I should ever be a defendant in court that I don't get this crowd as judge or jury. I think within 5 minutes the judge would be pulling a piece of black cloth from their pocket !

As per ACL

https://www.acl-uk.org/wp-content/up...ion-report.pdf S20

Do we know what type of aircraft Jetnetherlands will be operating on the LCY - MST LCY route.

19x per week sounds like an awful lot for London-Maastricht
Am wondering if this is going to be a private jet style service, or if it's actually a way to grab the slots but disguise the real plans which will be announced later