London city airport transatlantic

Entry queues are a common sight at Orlando International, the largest airport in Florida. With the state being such a popular tourist hotspot, it's worth undertaking preclearance checks in Dublin before departing. MCO is handily located six miles 10km southeast of Orlando centre, with excellent road links both into and out of the city.

This is your arrival point for Tampa, Jacksonville and the resorts of northern Florida. The four-terminal site is well-connected to the California road network courtesy of Route Landing at San Francisco International, you're just 13 miles 21km south of downtown San Francisco and within easy reach of nearby San Jose.

Miami International Airport, originally known as Wilcox Field, sits in Miami-Dade County eight miles 13km northwest of the city centre.

The airport not only serves Miami, but also the sun-drenched cities of Hialeah, Doral and Miami Springs in southern Florida. If you're heading onward to Latin America or the Caribbean Islands, Miami is a likely stopover on your journey.

The firm will rely on the Airbus A for this mission. The carrier was founded in September and its planned destinations involve easy to access city center airports across North America and the Middle East. Locations discussed include New York and Toronto. The company highlights that the single-aisle aircraft offers the lowest operating cost in its class. In fact, estimated for 6. Will it be popular? This is a nonsense - although BA sells most of its premium seats to corporates, big clients negotiate a rebate based on the volume of their annual spend which knocks that all but six grand down to something much more manageable.

And it's not selling particularly well: on a random October Monday which you might assume to be a busy business day the flight to New York shows 30 unsold seats on www. Outbound from London, the service isn't direct, there's a pitstop at boggy foggy Shannon in the west of Ireland for refuelling and customs clearance. This means that on arrival in New York you pull up to a domestic gate and won't need to pass through immigration. In , the first full year of operation, , passengers used the airport.

The destinations of flights in that first year were local to Plymouth and internationally to Amsterdam , Paris, and Rotterdam. Growth continued to a high of , passengers for , but fell off during the Gulf War, not reaching the same numbers again until An extended runway was approved and constructed in the mids, increasing the possible types of planes that could land and resulting in an increase to well over two million passengers a year by , giving tiny London City Airport a ranking of 14th among all airports in the United Kingdom.