London City Airport pauses terminal expansion plans

By Jim Dunton2020-08-17T09:14:00

Bosses set to ‘re-evaluate timing’ of £500m expansion programme’s final stages

London City Airport is pausing expansion plans that would have added an extension to its terminal building and boosted passenger capacity to 6.5m a year.

The east London airport closed for almost three months earlier this year because of the covid-19 pandemic. Bosses said passenger levels for 2020 would be well down on last year’s 5.1m and it had “become clearer” that recovery to previous levels would take longer than initially expected.

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