LONDON CITY AIRPORT should be close to 2m passengers for the year by the end of December. With the Dockland Light Railway now officially to open on 15 December the airport is set to boom with a target of 3.5m for 2010. Train time to Bank is 22 minutes and Canary Wharf just 10 minutes. Currently 50% of passengers arrive by taxi but this ratio is expected to drop with the coming of the train. 13 airlines now serve the airport with 23 routes. Work starts on the DLR extension under the Thames to the east of the airport in June, in three years” time LCY finally linked to south east London and Kent. The airport says that space has now been established for a terminal extension on land freed up by the new railway, eliminating a need to expensively expand over the water. The airport has also noted that 40% of British Airways passengers are now checking in electronically, half from their office or home, the balance on the self-ticketing machines provided in the terminal.
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