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There are also operational statistics, dealing with regularity,
punctuality delays etc, in the quarterly reports of the Airport Director
to the Consultative Committee - see the Committee's Minutes
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"Air Transport Movements" (ATMs) are landings or take-offs of aircraft engaged on the transport of passengers, cargo or mail on commercial terms. All scheduled movements, including those operated empty, loaded charter and air taxi movements are included.
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2011 Results
According to information supplied by London City Airport during the year ended 31st December 2011 the Airport handled 68,070 aircraft movements and 3,005,409 passengers. This compares with 67,871
aircraft movements and 2,793, 813 passengers during 2010.
One of the requirements of the s. 106 Agreement entered into on 9th July 2009 is that on 1 July each year the Airport should send to the local planning authority an Annual Performance Report describing its performance and compliance with the planning agreement in the preceding calendar year. The Report is to be published on this website. The Report for 2010 and its Appendices (in two files click here and here) was posted to this website on 1st August 2011. Chapter 2 on pages 9,10 and 11 deals with aircraft movements- see also Appendices 3 and 8.
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Aircraft Movements - Annual Totals 1987/2010
THE chart opposite, based on figures supplied by the CAA, shows the total number of flights each year since 1987. The Airport opened in October 1987 and by the end of year there had been just 1244 movements carrying 15,403 passengers. In 1988 there were 8781 movements and 132,986 passengers.
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Passengers - Annual Totals 1987/2010
THIS chart, also based on CAA figures, shows the total number of terminal passengers for each year since 1987. The Airport opened for business in October that year.
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Aircraft Movements by Type of Aircraft - quarterly summary
The Airport maintains a record of the numbers and types of aircraft using the airport the Airport. A summary of these figures is published quarterly on this page:
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Ranking among UK Airports
In 2010 the Airport ranked 14th among UK airports
in terms of its annual terminal passenger throughput, handling 1.3%
of passengers using UK airports. In terms of Air Transport
Movements London City ranked 10th.
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Principal Destinations - Moving Annual Totals - 1993/2011
These five charts relate to those services
presently operating from London City Airport which have done
so for more than 12 months. The first three charts plot for each
month since January 1993 the number of passengers in the previous
12 months. In these charts the domestic routes, i.e. those
to destinations in the UK, are grouped - see below for information
about current domestic routes. The remaining charts start in 2004 and 2006. (The figures are drawn from the
CAA's monthly Airports Statistics which are not published until
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Amsterdam, Zurich
and UK Domestic destinations (total) |
Paris, Rotterdam, Geneva and Antwerp |
Dublin, Luxembourg and Frankfurt |
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| Munich, Copenhagen, Nice, Nantes and New York
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Milan, Madrid, Billund, Eindhoven and Barcelona, The Barcelona service did not operate between November 2009 and February 2010. (Chart starts 2006)
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Palma, Ibiza, Deauville and Brive. Deauville did not operate in October 2011 (Chart starts 2011) |
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UK Destinations - Moving Annual Totals - May 2001 onwards
For each UK domestic route operating for more
than one year (Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, the Isle of Man and Jersey) the chart opposite plots for each month since May 2001
the number of passengers in the previous 12 months. (The figures are drawn from the
CAA's monthly Airports Statistics which are not published until
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CAA Annual Airports Statistics 2010
Here is some of the information about London
City Airport drawn from the CAA's Annual Airports Statistics
for 2010. The Annual statistics are issued in March or
April of the following year. Thus the 2011 statistics
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Air Services - Passengers by Destination 2010
This chart shows the number of passengers carried
to each destination served by the Airport during the year ended
31st December 2010. It shows that the most popular service remains that to Zurich followed by Amsterdam, Edinburgh, Geneva and Frankfurt. Five new new services started at various times during the year but three were withdrawn..
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Air Transport Movements 1987/2010
This chart shows the total number of air transport
movements (ATMs) for each of the 24 years 1987 - 2010. It should
be noted that the Airport opened in October 1987. By the end of 2010 the total number of ATMs using the Airport since it opened in 1987 was more than 906,000. The number of movements was in excess of 1,010,000. |
Number of Terminal Passengers 1987/2010
This chart shows the number of terminal
passengers for each of the 23 years 1987 - 2010. It should be
noted that the Airport opened in October 1987. By the end of 2010 the Airport had been used by nearly 31million passengers over the 24 years it had been operating.
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Growth 1994-2010
In the seven years 1994 - 2001 the number of
passengers using London City Airport increased steadily from
0.477 mppa to 1.619 mppa - 239%. In 2002 the number fell
to 1.602 mppa (-1.05%) and in 2003 there was a further fall to
1.471 mppa (-8%). In 2004, however, there was renewed growth of 0.204mppa (14%) taking the total to 1.675 mppa. This was continued in 2005 (1.996mppa -19%), 2006 (2.377mppa - 16%), 2007 (2.912mppa - 23%) and 2008 (3.260mppa - 12%). But in 2009, because of the recession the number of passenger fell back to 2.797mppa and in 2010 there was a further slight fall to 2.781mppa.
Over the 10 years ending 2010 the overall increase
in terminal passengers at London City was more than 72% compared with
17% for UK airports generally. Likewise the total number
of flig` hts at London City increased by more than 72% compared with a fall of 14%
for UK airports generally.
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Countries Served 2000/2010
This chart shows the countries served by the
airport in 2010 and the number of passengers carried to/from
each - the figures for 2000-2009 are given for comparison.
It will be seen that most passengers using London City Airport
travel to or from destinations in Switzerland. This is followed by the UK (including Jersey and
the Isle of Man). Other popular countries in Europe
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Charter Flights
In 2010 there were 14 charter flights making
up 0.02% of the total number of air transport movements. There
were 380 charter passengers making up 0.013% of the total number
of passengers. These figures exclude 7180 air taxi flights.
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Diversions 2010
During 2010 some 199 air transport flights to
London City were diverted to other airports, an increase of 21% over
the previous year. This is equivalent to 0.6% of air landings
at the Airport. Most of these flights were diverted to
Stansted (155), Southend (20) and Gatwick (13).
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Nationality of Operators
The charts to the right show that 74% of flights
to and from London City Airport in 2010 were operated by UK
or other EU operators who carried 61%
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Other Flights
In addition to air transport movements there
were 1573 positioning, test and training and business aviation
flights plus a small number (40) of official, military and "other" flights.
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CAA Passenger Survey 2008
During 2008 London City Airport again participated
in a CAA Survey of departing passengers at a number of airports around the country including those in London. The headline results, as they affect London City Airport, are shown tin the following graphs. For more detailed information visit the CAA's website
(Note: Where available the 2000 Survey
results, and those of 2003 and 2006, are provided for comparison. )
Note: LCY =London City, LGW = London Gatwick, LHR = London Heathrow, LTN = London Luton, STN = London Stansted |
London Airports - Business and Leisure Passengers
57% of passengers using London City Airport are travelling on business. This is by far the highest proportion among the London Airports. The second chart shows for UK and Foreigh passengers the percentage of business and leisure travellers at each of the London Airports. LCY has the largest proportion of business travellers in both categories.
[2000, 2003 and 2006 Figures for Comparison]
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Comparison of Ticket Types Purchased at London
Airports
LCY still has the highest proportion of passengers
(22%) using Business/First and Economy full fare tickets when
compared to the other London Airports, although the percentage has been falling over time. [2000 and 2003/2006 Figures for Comparison ] |
London Airport - Connecting Passengers
Most passengers (92%) using London City Airport make point-to-point journeys. Only about 2% of arriving passengers have connected at the airport of origin from a flight from elsewhere although 6% of departing passengers will connect with other flights on arrival from LCY. [2006 Figures for Comparison ]
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LCY Passengers - Country of Residence
Well over half the Airport's passengers are resident in the UK.
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London Airports - International/Domestic Split
There are more domestic passengers at LCY (21%) than the other London Airportsalthough the percetnage has been falling. [Figures for 2000 and 2003 and 2006 for Comparison] |
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LCY Passengers - Gender
About 62% of the Airport's passengers are male. This is a higher pecentage than at the other London Airports.[2003 and 2006 LCY Figures for Comparison]
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LCY Passengers - Age
More than three quarters of the Airport's passenger are aged between 25 and 54. On the whole the age profile of passengers at London City Airport is younger than at the London airports. [2003 and 2006 LCY Figures for Comparison]
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Socio Economic Groups
The first chart shows the proportion of passengers in socio-economic
groups A, B, C1, C2, D at London City Airport in both 2006 and 2008 while the second chart shows these proportions for all passengers using London's Airports. It can be seen that the majority of LCY's passengers continue to be in socio-economic groups A, B and C1. [2000 Figures and those for 2003/2006 at LCY and all London Airports for comparison] |
LCY Passengers - Employment Sectors
MOre than 60% of passengers using LCY are in Banking and Finance and other business services. [LCY figures for 2000, 2003 and 2006 for comparison]
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Income
of Passengers
LCY passengers tend to be high earners. Business passengers using London City had the highest average individual incomes at £89,000, compared with £78,000 at Heathrow and £68,000 at Luton. [Figures for 2000and 2003 and 2006 for LCY and other London Airports for comparison] |
Surface Origin and Destination of Passengers
Most of the the Airport's passengers come from the south-east of England (96%) with another 2% from East Anglia. The percentage of passengers from the Cities of London and Westminster (27%) has fallen slightlyand likewise since 2006 there has been a slight decline (1%) in the percentage of passengers from the Docklands. But between them these areas still dominate the Airport's catchment area (54%). [2000 , 2003 and 2006 LCY Figures for Comparison]
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LCY Passengers - Modes of Surface Transport
These figures (comparing 2006 with 2008) show that the new DLR line direct to the Airport is now carrying 44% of air passengers. Another 36% use taxis. Only 15% of passengers use private cars and of these only about a quarter use the Airport's car park. [2000/2003 LCY Figures for Comparison] |
Passengers - Last Mode of Transport 2010
This chart shows the last mode of transport of air passengers at London City Airport in 2010. The figures are percentages. They are based on the average of the four quarterly passenger survey results carried out on the Airport’s behalf by Continental Research, .
It will be seen that more than half the passengers used the Docklands Light Railway. More than 30% used taxis or mini-cabs while only about 13% used private road transport. Only 3% of passengers left private cars in teh Airport's car parks.
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