120,000: ANNUAL FLIGHT MOvEMENTS ALLOWEd FROM LCY, FOLLOWING RECENT PLANNING APPROvAL – AN INCREASE OF 50 PER CENT
The ongoing development of more fuel-efficient aircraft will, Aside from that, the sale of Gatwick shouldn’t impact on business. Without it, we’d be unable to handle the sort of
therefore, be very important, as will progress towards finding business at LCY, because Gatwick has never featured largely for passenger numbers we see today, because we don’t have
an alternative fuel source for aircraft. business travel. It is possible that it could be repositioned by the sufficient room for the necessary roads and parking.
London City Airport has always been a green airport new buyer for that market, but some drastic changes would The dLR will get you from LCY to Bank, central London, in
since it opened 21 years ago, and we’ll continue to push this need to be made first. The only direct transport into central 22 minutes. More than 50 per cent of people using the airport
issue forward. London is the Gatwick Express, while travelling anywhere else travel on it, compared to less than 10 per cent of people driving
by public transport is very difficult. to the airport. And, once you take into account people with lots
What effects do you think the sale of gatwick of luggage or with a disability, that figure is really very low.
airport might have? You mention gatwick’s limitations – just how
The proposed sale of Gatwick marks a big change in the important is access for the success of an airport? What do you think of the proposals by London mayor
provision of airport services in London and the south-east. Surface transport is essential, because business travellers need Boris Johnson for an airport in the Thames estuary?
We believe this could lead to improved customer choice, along speed and certainty. When we first started, we didn’t even have Mayor Johnson is strategically right – he’s trying to replicate
with better service quality and value for money. A strong, much of a road, but gradually the infrastructure of east London what has been done in Hong Kong, Japan and Paris. However,
competitive airport sector will enhance London’s position on has changed. We got a road, then some buses and eventually experience elsewhere in the world tells us that such airports
the global stage, which in turn will be good for LCY. the docklands Light Railway (dLR), which has transformed the only succeed if the original airport is closed. Where the old
30
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52