BA LCY Expansion - 4 aircraft, Rome and more...
Aug 29, 2018, 7:04 am
#33
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Very good news for my favourite airport. If we could get some Personally I'd like to see more domestic flights including inverness.
I don't get the calls for a lounge but then i live close enough that I can leave the house 60 mins before pushback, take the DLR and still get a coffee. If I take the motorbike (and there's free bike parking at LCY) I can leave 40 mins before push back!
I don't get the calls for a lounge but then i live close enough that I can leave the house 60 mins before pushback, take the DLR and still get a coffee. If I take the motorbike (and there's free bike parking at LCY) I can leave 40 mins before push back!
Aug 29, 2018, 7:26 am
#34
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Do we know where the aircraft are coming from? New or second hand?
As their range is a little over 2,000 NM they must take quite a long route around the Atlantic to get to Europe.
As their range is a little over 2,000 NM they must take quite a long route around the Atlantic to get to Europe.
Aug 29, 2018, 7:42 am
#35
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How do you know they have so many point-to-point pax?
Aug 29, 2018, 7:46 am
#36
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Eastern tried NCL-LCY some years ago (c. 2006?) and IIRC it didn't last long. LHR-NCL loads seem very high but I'd be interested to know how much of this is point-to-point vs. connecting services. My impression has always been that BA - perhaps wrongly - see the latter as the core proposition for the NCL service, and the point-to-point traffic just as incidental. But it would be interesting to know if a 1/2 daily NCL-LCY return could be viable as a truly domestic service; fares are so high on the East Coast mainline that a well-timed LCY service which genuinely does offer a door-to-door timesaving into central London (LHR is marginal) could find some untapped demand.
Aug 29, 2018, 8:45 am
#37
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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.
Aug 29, 2018, 9:01 am
#38
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Would be very nice if BA started NCL-LGW if only for connections to some of the holiday destination flights. Even a single flight from NCL early morning and a return late evening would work. I do wonder how much leisure travel BA have lost to the likes of Virgin who fly Manchester > Orlando.
Aug 29, 2018, 9:01 am
#39
Join Date: Sep 2016
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Thanks for posting that, very interesting. Just to help those on gizmos, and in line with FT's policy on bare links, here is the content:
Incidentally another implication of this is that given BA can't expand LCY's operating hours, this presumably will just add to the smörgåsbord of regional services at weekend from EDI, GLA, MAN, BHX and BRS.
Incidentally another implication of this is that given BA can't expand LCY's operating hours, this presumably will just add to the smörgåsbord of regional services at weekend from EDI, GLA, MAN, BHX and BRS.
Aug 29, 2018, 10:34 am
#41
Join Date: Feb 2016
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LCY is always my preference when travelling to LON, always quickest to get to anywhere in the within zone 2 I find. I hope the expansion does not mean the introduction of Bob to the BACF routes as it's another added benefit of the service
Aug 29, 2018, 10:40 am
#42
Join Date: May 2018
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It is also a profitable route where BA can sell CE tickets at a very high price (return starting from £420!).
Aug 29, 2018, 11:12 am
#43
Join Date: May 2004
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I am curious as to others' recent experiences, but both of my summer LCY experiences were poor and in my opinion to an extent attributable to that old queuing/scheduling phenomenon where efficiency drops off dramatically when you go too near capacity. My flight into LCY from NCE was 1-2 hours late because of late outbound for unknown reasons. All LHR/LGW services into and out of NCE were fine that day. The time I thought I would save by landing at LCY was lost twice over by the delays. Outbound to ORY was badly delayed as well, first from a gate not being available, then from the plane brought to the gate not being serviceable, so we had a walk to a new gate with a different aircraft and another long wait well after our original departure should have happened.
LHR and LGW have both been clockwork for me this summer when I've flown.
LHR and LGW have both been clockwork for me this summer when I've flown.
Aug 29, 2018, 11:22 am
#44
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To be honest, it was mostly a case of AF throwing the towel. Cityjet was their subsidiary and AF had been by far the largest operator. Then the pair started making questionable choices or could not survive in a foreign land or could not survive once BA decided to give them competition or all of the above and by the time AF got out of Cityjet, it was merely a case of how long Cityjet would keep the pretence before giving up.
Aug 29, 2018, 11:22 am
#45
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I’m ok with relatively small delays, it’s when it gets much longer that it becomes a problem. Another problem is when they know there’s bad weather and they divert, thus your return to LCY gets cancelled.