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Mar19

Inter-airport interlining

Permalink | 19/03/10 | Categories: Airlines, Airports, Railways, State of the ART | by: A Sharp English (UK)

It is received wisdom that passengers don't change airports when changing planes. There is sometimes a plea for a rail connection between Heathrow and Gatwick, for example, which is always rejected on the grounds that very few people fly into one airport and change to a plane flying out of the other. I have seen figures for this particular transfer and they are pretty low.

However, travelling back from Madrid to London City Airport recently, from casual conversation behind me it was apparent that one passenger was interlining between London City and Heathrow. He was flying out to the US from Heathrow next morning.

How that happened - whether it was deliberate, accidental or just the only combination of flights available I never found out. Maybe he just upset his travel agent! But getting from London City to Heathrow isn't easy (DLR to Canning Town, Jubilee to Green Park and Piccadilly to Heathrow, if you ever need to know). And he was clearly a naive passenger.

So inter-airport inter-lining does happen: I hope that airport railway station information systems are up to it!

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Pierre AGERON [Visitor]
An antique experience.
Travelling from LYS to MEX in August 2001, I had to transfer by the "speed link" coach service between LGW and LHR, due to the lack of LYS- LHR flights in this period. (Not the case any more since 2007 I think).
But I had prefered to make the 2 hour connection to staying 8 hours in LGW for my return from CUN!!!
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