Book it Danno! Morning Time at London City Airport

Book it Danno! Travelodge, London City Airport

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With me out of the hotel, I was lazy, and caught the bus back to London City Airport.

The terminal at London City Airport.

However, I wasn’t going to check in just yet and head to the lounge – instead I needed to head to Canary Wharf to pick up some extra memory cards. So it was a quick ride on the DLR to Canning Town, and the Jubilee Line to the Wharf.

Yes, I could had done an Uber, but I have other fish to fry… and £40 of Tube credit to reclaim that had been sitting in limbo for a while.

Morning time on the DLR

The Millienium Dome (or as it’s called these days, The O2).

A short wait, and I was on the Underground to Canary Wharf.

Once I got to Canary Wharf there were two points of order – one being breakfast (which was catered as a sandwich meal deal by Boots the Chemist) and two was memory cards, which were catered by the small branch of PC World in Canary Wharf.

Not my brand of choice, but they’ll do.

All that in hand – it was time to head back to London City Airport, by repeating the route in reverse. Total time spend – about an hour which brought me close to 11:30am. The perfect time to check in.

I headed through the main depatures arrival area, and through to check-in. Check in was handled with the minimim of fuss, and soon I had my boarding pass to New York.

Main check-in area

With the done, it was up to security to be cleared. When I arrived there… there was no-one there queuing bar the security staff. I was processed through in a quick fashion and was through to the main departures area in under 3 minutes flat.

Try that at a major hub in London… it doesn’t happen.

Once through, it was time to do a few little things… such as get a gift for the people I would be meeting in New York.

London City Airport does one thing really well – and that’s ensure there’s power of all sorts for its passengers (along with very high speed internet).

Connectivity is sponsored, but all main power systems are present – UK, EU, US style plugs and even USB charging. And these sockets are everywhere in the main part of terminal. For the modern passenger who needs to keep devices charged and keep connected – it’s a dream come true (along with 50mb download speed WiFi).

However, my intrests are elsewhere – namely the departure gate. London City Airport itself doesn’t have airline lounges – the idea is you get to the airport late, clear security and get on the plane (with a 20 minute check-in deadline normally acceptable at the airport). The only lounge that does exisit is Gate 24 – which is used exclusively for the London City Airport to New York JFK flights

Once down the gate lounge, my boarding pass was blipped, and I settled down joining my fellow tier point runners who had made it early to the gate.

This helped too.

Meanwhile outside, the plane was waiting for me

Breakfast was being offered to passengers – I skipped it thanks to the Boots breakfast I had.

Seating area

For me, I took the time to catch up with the world, copy a few things to different devices as I wanted to be prepared for any circumstances at the US border.

With that done, boarding was announced for BA001 to Shannon and onto New York. I took my leave of the lounge and headed out onto the tarmac to the waiting Airbus A318 for the upcoming transatlantic flight…

Next: BA001 London City Airport to New York JFK via Shannon.

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