{"id":629,"date":"2010-08-20T07:22:19","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T07:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wiki.davelevy.info\/?p=629"},"modified":"2023-11-04T13:43:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T13:43:45","slug":"london-city-airport-lcy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/london-city-airport-lcy\/","title":{"rendered":"London City Airport (LCY)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a long time since I updated this page. I tried to travel to Copenhagen last week and couldn&#8217;t find a flight. On my return I looked up all destinations and found <a title=\"LCY Destinations Oct 2014\" href=\"https:\/\/www.londoncityairport.com\/flight-info\/destinations\">this page<\/a>, which lists them all. It seems I could have travelled to Hamburg and then by train, I looked, maybe they were full since BA only do two flights a day and weekdays at that. <em>24 Oct 2014<\/em><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Approaching London City by Dangleway\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3877\/14813984764_a794900e48.jpg\" alt=\"approachingsilvertown\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>What they say about themselves<\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.londoncityairport.com\/at-the-airport\">https:\/\/www.londoncityairport.com\/at-the-airport<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.londoncityairport.com\/eating-drinking-at-the-airport\">https:\/\/www.londoncityairport.com\/eating-drinking-at-the-airport<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>To my knowledge there are no private lounges<\/p>\n<h3>Easier Security<\/h3>\n<p>Liquids and Devices <a href=\"https:\/\/www.londoncityairport.com\/security-and-baggage\">need not be removed from bags<\/a> today, but they do on the way back in the scanning airport.<\/p>\n<p>At LCY, the journey from plane to reclaim carousel is shorter for the baggage than for the people once one has had to queue at passport control. It <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">might be best<\/span> to check luggage in on the way back. They have rules on batteries, lithium ion batteries <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caa.co.uk\/passengers\/before-you-fly\/baggage\/items-that-are-allowed-in-baggage\/\">must be in the hand luggage<\/a>, my keyboard and mouse batteries can probably travel in checked in luggage as they are alkaline batteries; I&#8217;d best make sure I replace them appropriately.<\/p>\n<h4>Getting there<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Interestingly Google Maps suggests 53\/177 to Woolwich Arsenal, and then DLR to City Airport. <em>(March 2020)<\/em>. And of course National Rail <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/AgbtLYmv4SZY2dq56\">from Deptford to Woolwich Arsenal and onto LCY!<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/davelevy\/39398475652\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/4643\/39398475652_d1302b4f15_b.jpg\" alt=\"Waterloo Sunset\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Otherwise from the Lewisham branch of the DLR is a nuisance, often involving two changes and\/or a big wait at Poplar or Canning town or we can use the Dangleway, with two walks, so will depend on luggage.<\/p>\n<p>The unique ground side bureau de change is <b>AMEX<\/b>, who don&#8217;t do HUFs, what do they do? I know they do Euro&#8217;s and am pretty certain they do CHFs. Is it based on the destination list?. Maybe next time I need to consider getting my money elsewhere. <em>c 2010<\/em>\u00a0 but I should buy from the post office. New rule, don&#8217;t buy FX at the Airport or at St. Pancras!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a long time since I updated this page. I tried to travel to Copenhagen last week and couldn&#8217;t find a flight. On my return I looked up all destinations and found this page, which lists them all. It seems I could have travelled to Hamburg and then by train, I looked, maybe they&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[79],"tags":[183,182,56,108],"class_list":["post-629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel","tag-airport","tag-lcy","tag-london","tag-travel-2"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/lcy-matthewbrowne-unsplash-crpd-w1280.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9416,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions\/9416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}