As you may have read this week, I had a great backstage visit to London City Airport last week. The last part of the visit was the on-airport Fire Service. The team of firefighters have a number of jobs around the airport, beyond simply those you might expect in an emergency. They operate 4 fire…
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London City – Part 3 – ATC – How many planes are there above us?
After a short break for Breakfast – thank you London City – we were past the morning peak and there were less planes on their stands. Geraldine from Corporate Comms joined us for the rest of the visit. It was time to visit the Air Traffic Control Tower – a rare treat only possible because…
BA retimes BA001 (LCY-JFK) to 0950 for winter
Some time ago I wrote about changes to the London City to New York service from BA. Specifically that the late flight BA3 was losing pre-clearance of US Immigration during the refueling stop in Shannon. This is confirmed by BA, but what I had missed is that BA1, the earlier departure is being re-timed to…
London City – Part 2 – Ramp Control – a tale of skis and teams
Whilst it was still dark we went to a small room at the end of the runway, past doors for crew briefings, to one of the places that must impact on almost everyone that works at the airport or travels there – Ramp Control. United Airlines sometimes still has Channel 9 on its planes where…
London City – Part 1 – Ops Team – waking up a sleeping giant!
It was still dark as Harish, from the web site team and who was my escort for the morning, kitted me out in a very fetching Hi-Viz jacket, and obtained the pass I would need to let me airside – escorted of course. The helpful man at the Information desk exchanged my passport for my…
It’s 5am, and I’m at London City, but not going anywhere !!!
I’m up this morning at 03:39 ready for the taxi to come and take me to the airport. Nothing new you might say, and normally you’d be correct. However, today I’m not flying anywhere! Rather, I have been offered the chance of a behind-the-scenes view of how an airport wakes up to the world, gets…
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