New LCY approaches

Chris_5339762

I can't actually find much information online about this.

Why were the approaches to London City changed? Not too long ago the Dublin flights used to pass London to the north, then enter a hold just off the coast. Now, they seem to go south of London and enter a hold over Dover before approaching.

This had added a pile of time to LCY approaches and looking at Flightradar, its rare to see DUB-LCY flights anything like on time. Its added 15 - 20 minutes to flights and at the moment, Cityjet is not the best option for flying to London anymore.

Why were they changed, and does anyone have any more general information on this?

BonkeyDonker

Its part of a much larger airspace re-configuration in London, and City is the unwanted sibling as such in this.

Lustrum

It's called LAMP1A, a Google search might give you all the info you want. It has added at least 15 mins to every sector inbound from Dublin, and that's if you're lucky. More than likely it will be 20-30 mins. Cityjet used to fly straight across the Irish Sea, but there's an altitude restrictions at a point called rolex that quire often the aircraft had to slow down to reach, adding a bit more time. The route now goes down via stumble where there's no restrictions, so you can fly as fast as you can. It makes a little bit of a difference on the late flights, but if it's at all busy in London it's still going to take ages.

My worst so far is being abeam LCY to the south at FL110, and being on blocks 37 mins later. For the pilots as well as the passengers, for the time being anyway it's a disaster