london city airport map layoutLondon City Airport. London’s Docklands enfolds the small London City Airport, whose business focus is on the major European cities, giving mostly weekday flight schedules.  Being the closest airport yet by far the smallest, it has effortless entry to Central London. At touchdown, in just a matter of minutes, 10 the most, one is already outside the terminal building airport to central London even if you have luggage on hold.


London City Airports has 3 places to eat before the security.

  • Coffee Corner, Wine & Tapas Bar: Coffees , tapas, paninis and a selection of other snacks.
  • Meridian Line: serves all the main meals of the day open to everybody including non passengers.
  • EAT: , hand made food, meant to be good have not tried it.

After Security Restuarants in London City Airport

  • Bar 10 28: Good selection of food wines and cocktails
  • Presto: Healthy food and snacks.
  • Trattoria: Large selection of Italian food, pastas garlic bread.
  • Cafe Nero: Coffee and snacks

Transport to and from London City Airport

Docklands Light rail station system London City Airport

  • The Docklands Light Railway station is joined to the the main terminal building, the airport is in zone 3 of the London transport zones.
  • There is a light rail every 8 to 15 minutes to Canning town and Woolwich Arsenal every 22 minutes to Bank

Bus to and from London City airport.

There is a reliable bus service to and from London City Airport, both the 473 and 474 serve London City airport.

  • Bus number 473 operates between London City Airport, Stratford, Silvertown, North Woolwich and Prince Regent DLR Station.
  • Bus number 474 operates between London City Airport, Canning Town, North Woolwich and East Beckton via Silvertown. 

Train To Central London from London City Airport

The nearest rail stations to London City Airport is London Bridge also Waterloo and Straford International are very close by, Each of these stations can be reached by the Jubilee via Canning town, this is a 7 minute Journey on the Docklands Light rail system.

Taxis from London City Airport

If you need to get to other airports I recommend to check out the map bellow, London city Airport is ideally located to get to all other airports, I recommend to use the public transport though, its quite expensive to get a taxi, I have included a price list of taxi fares from London airport to all the major train stations.

 Location of London City Airport

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Airlines and destinations from London City Airport

Airlines   Destinations
Aer Arann Isle of Man
Air France operated by CityJet Amsterdam, Dublin, Geneva, Nice, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Paris-Orly
Air France operated by ScotAirways Dundee, Edinburgh, Eindhoven, Strasbourg
Alitalia operated by Transwede Airways Milan-Linate
British Airways New York-JFK [begins September 2009]
British Airways operated by BA CityFlyer Amsterdam, Barcelona, Dublin, Edinburgh, Frankfurt, Geneva, Glasgow-International, Lyon, Madrid, Nice, Warsaw [Suspended until March 29], Zurich
British Airways operated by Sun Air of Scandinavia Billund
Lufthansa operated by Augsburg Airways Munich
Lufthansa operated by Contact Air Düsseldorf
Lufthansa operated by Eurowings Frankfurt
Lufthansa operated by Lufthansa CityLine Berlin-Tegel, Frankfurt, Munich
Luxair Luxembourg
Scandinavian Airlines System operated by Cimber Air Copenhagen
Scandinavian Airlines System operated by Transwede Airways Oslo [ends March 27], Stockholm-Arlanda
Swiss International Air Lines operated by Swiss European Air Lines Basel/Mulhouse, Geneva, Zurich
VLM Airlines

 

 

 

This entry was posted on Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 at 7:56 am.
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