Originally Posted by
kingcole974
Will BA cover our travel cost from LCY to LHR or is it my own fault for accepting a different airport
The fare between LCY and LHR is £3.10 today, or £1.50 if you go via the North London line (probably not the day to try this though!).
Usually BA's reaction is that indeed since you chose this course of action, effectively changing the ticket routing, then that's for your own account. The actual wording of EC261 uses the word "offers", so I don't think it's as clear-cut as BA imagines.
When, in the case where a town, city or region is served by several airports, an operating air carrier offers a passenger a flight to an airport alternative to that for which the booking was made, the operating air carrier shall bear the cost of transferring the passenger from that alternative airport either to that for which the booking was made, or to another close-by destination agreed with the passenger.