14 MAY 2012

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Article from BTNews 14 MAY 2012

London City and BA

British Airways is to introduce a new service from London City Airport to the Isle of Man.  The airline will operate a single flight from Ronaldsway to the dockland airport from 28 May.  This will increase to three services weekly daily, one on Saturdays and two on Sundays from 25 June.  The operation will be flown by a Eastern Airways single class Saab 2000 under a leasing agreement that includes flight deck and cabin staff all of whom work in BA uniforms.   

In another move CityFlyer is to withdraw its twice daily flights to Copenhagen from 24 May but it is hoped that Sun Air will resurrect the route in September using the smaller (32 seats) Dornier 328 jet.  Sun Air flies from LCY to Billund.

Now very well established, CityFlyer carried 1.1m passengers out of London City in 2011 with a load factor of 68% both up on the previous year.  The owner’s’ confidence in the operation is shown by the acquisition of a further Embraer 190 (98 seats) for the Aberdeen route which starts 23 September and an upping of frequency to some of the carrier’s 22 destinations.  Germany is a possibly for further expansion. www.ba.com

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