BA LCY Expansion - 4 aircraft, Rome and more...
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As always, it's interesting to have discovered which flight deck rumours proved to have been correct and incorrect!
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would be interesting to see maybe OTP-LCY, they have many p2p pax on this route and the flights from here to LHR (both BA and ROT) are fully booked all the time, extra capacity and serving LCY will be great for p2p pax.
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Do you think that could be anything to do with the surprising surge in visitors to PHX? How do you know they have so many point-to-point pax?
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IIRC, UK registrations are not re-used. And AIUI, a registration can't be re-used once it has been reserved, even if it is not taken up. This can be seen in the G-GATx sequence, in which G-GATO was reserved by BA for the aircraft that was later rejected.
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When will City Airport get in the way of its own expansion? It’s pretty common already to land and then have to wait to disembark, whilst a gate / parking space is found. Adding more aircraft will make this situation worse. I’m all for more route from LCY as it’s a great little airport but they do need to expand the site not just the routes.
Are all stands now E190 compatible or are there still some that can only handle shorter aircraft?
I’m sure they’ve worked it out, but both the tarmac & the terminal are already creaking at the seams and not just in the business peak times.
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Adding some more domestic capacity into LCY could free up some LHR slots, NCL or MAN?
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Except that MAN has a very high %age of people connecting on to other services. NCL slightly less so, but still high - I suspect that the lack of connecting options at LCY would put off some from those airports? NCL has been tried some time ago - by Eastern if I remember correctly, but they couldn't make it work.
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When will City Airport get in the way of its own expansion? It’s pretty common already to land and then have to wait to disembark, whilst a gate / parking space is found. Adding more aircraft will make this situation worse. I’m all for more route from LCY as it’s a great little airport but they do need to expand the site not just the routes.
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