London's only central city airport, London City Airport, has had its busiest ever month, week and day in May, reported breakingtravelnews.com. The airport peaked at 15,697 passengers on Friday 23rd . It's monthly figure was 315,514 which was its highest in 26 years.
That was nearly a 20 percent increase since May 2012.
"These record-breaking numbers, combined with consistently higher load factors, demonstrate real success in the development of the route network at LCY, said Matthew Hall to Breakintravelnews.com, who is the chief commercial officer of London City Airport. "With several new routes having launched already this year and additional rotations on established routes, we have achieved a significant increase in passenger numbers, compared to relatively static growth at other airports in the south-east."
He added that the airport will continue to work with airline partners to ensure and maintain schedules and improve the business class experience.
"New routes launched from LCY in 2013 include Dresden and Paderborn with CityJet, Kristiansand with Flynonstop and Rome with Alitalia, as well as increased frequencies from Alitalia and Luxair," reported Breakingtravelnews.com.
ondon also may be the home to a new floating airport, proposals revealed. The upcoming airport, London Britannia Airport would involve four floating runways that are tethered to a sea bed located in the Thames Estuary.
The architecture firm Gensler has designed the floating airport which would allow for expansion of up to six runways.
Project director, Ian Mulcahey told the BBC in September, "The airport can be quickly manufactured in the ship yards and steel works across the UK and can be floated by sea and positioned in the Estuary. This isn't a London airport, it is a global airport, designed, manufactured and built in the UK."
London's the Daily Mail said that the airport will be nicknamed after Boris Johnson, London's mayor with the nickname "Boris Island."
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