Richard Gooding steps down at London City Airport

After 15 years as Chief Executive of London City Airport (LCY) Richard Gooding OBE is to step down and will join the Board as a Non-Executive Director.  Before his arrival at LCY he held a similar position at Luton.

New Chief Executive of LCY will be Declan Collier, currently CEO of the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA).  The appointments will be effective from early in 2012.

“We are delighted to have secured as our new CEO somebody of Declan Collier’s calibre and experience,” said Roy Griffins, Chairman of LCY.  “Declan has led DAA through a transformational period in terms of its infrastructure and business culture.  He is a respected voice within the aviation industry through his involvement with Airports Council International (ACI), where he is currently President, ACI Europe.

It was back in 1996 when Richard Gooding joined LCY, the first major move of Irish businessman Dermot Desmond, who the year previously had purchased the airport from Mowlem for just £23.5m (and was to sell it 10 years later to AIG and Global Infrastructure for a reputed £750m.  In 1996 720,000 passengers passed through the airport.  For this year the figure will be close to 3m. www.londoncityairport.com

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