The expansion of London City Airport from 6.5M to 9M passengers per annum has been approved by the government, subject to conditions including a ban on some weekend flights.
Airport expansions have been firmly on the back burner in recent years, with climate considerations and the pandemic-driven fall in passenger numbers creating rising uncertainty.
London City Airport has returned to expansion plans which were put on ice in 2020 due to the impact of Covid-19.
The London Plan – drawn up by Sadiq Khan and approved by Communities secretary Robert Jenrick – includes no provision for Heathrow Airport Ltd’s plans for a third runway.
London City Airport’s £500M expansion programme will grind to a halt following the completion of the first phase of works.
There should be no increase in the UK’s airport capacity if emissions from flying are to be cut to net zero by 2050, according to the Committee on Climate Change (CCC)’s Sixth Carbon Budget (2033-37).
This video was first broadcast at NCE’s Future of Transport conference 2020. In this session, London City Airport chief development officer Peter Adams explains what work has already been carried out on the airport’s £500M expansion and what is left to do. It comes after the airport announced that…
Air passenger numbers may not recover to pre-Covid levels until 2024, London City Airport’s chief development officer has said.
The £500M expansion project of London City Airport has been paused indefinitely because of the economic slump caused by Covid-19.
The environmental challenge posed by airport expansions has been thrown into the spotlight by the court ruling last week which deemed Heathrow’s third runway plans as “unlawful”.
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