Would something like an SAS Café Lounge or Air New Zealand Koru Express Lounge work at an expanded LCY?

http://www.sasgroup.net/en/sas-launches-cafe-lounges/

http://www.ausbt.com.au/a-new-concep...z-koru-express

The time I would really want a lounge is when flights are delayed and even though you have turned up 30 minutes before, you actually need to wait in the departure area for 2 hours or more. It's happened to me more times than I can remember.

It's stupid to spend that much on renovating the airport without lengthening the runway, although I agree that the existing terminal area can get crowded.

Incredible how things change. I used to fly out of LCY back in 1992 when it was basically a ghost town, especially at weekends. I often used to take an AF flight to CDG on Sunday evenings where on one occasion there were only two passengers on the flight. If I remember correctly, the airport actually closed down completely between Saturday and Sunday midday...or something like that.

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AIUI, there is no benefit from increasing the runway (ignoring how difficult that would be) unless you knock down half of Canary & New Providence Wharves, as the glideslope is the limiting factor as much as runway length.

It still does - I believe they are legally required to give the nearby residents 24 hours 'quiet time' at the weekend. (In addition to closing at 10pm on weeknights).

They are building a taxiway so that aircraft don't have to use the runway for extended movements as they do at present.

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I was at LCY earlier today so I was interested in the fact that there is this tunnel below the runway - I had no idea. But I can certainly remember the trains trundling through Silvertown station, past the Tate and Lyle factory and then off to the ferry head. It's quite an interesting area, one of Britain's biggest explosions took place not far from there during WWI and was successfully covered up for many years.

The Connaught tunnel doesn't pass under the runway but instead a small sliver of the Jet Centre apron at the very southeastern corner. It's still under airport property though, for sure: https://constructionetc.files.wordpr...nnaught-ga.jpg

Hopefully some decent competition and good news for consumers in form of fare competition.

It's difficult to imagine what a lounge at LCY would be like.

On the one hand, based on volume of Golds alone, I can see a Gold-only lounge, but what sort of Gold customer would actually use it? The vast majority of LCY users who are Gold are there precisely because of the time saving; that extra 30 minutes at home, or the office, knowing they can stroll up from a taxi and walk directly onto the plane.

It seems rather curious to me that a brand new railway line that runs right underneath London City Airport will not have a station there. I may be missing something, but I don't see any "quick changes" from Crossrail to the DLR to get to LCY.

It's a bit like the LHR situation; it's almost as if our transport system is required to make it difficult to get to airports by rail.

4 miles nearer than SNN-JFK, and no problems with ETOPS (in fact the JFK run goes closer to the 138 minute triangle)

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You may not know that the crossrail station at canary wharf will be directly linked to poplar on the DLR, which should be a pretty quick change

It's about 200 yards. That's not what I call a quick change, especially as some heading for LCY will have luggage with them.