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Re:London City Airport Shut as WW2 Bomb Found in Thames by Anderkent on Monday February 12, 2018 @11:00AM (#16359466)
The main portion of flying isnt the 1h30 of the flight, it's the 2 hours getting to the shitty suburban airport then 1.5h going through security if it is busy, then 1.5h flying, then another hour getting from a shitty suburban airport to the destination city. Compare with just getting to Kings Cross and walking through passport control in ~20 mins, then disembarking in central Paris.

I commuted monday-friday from London to Paris for a couple months, and if I were to fly I don't think I could take it.

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Re:London City Airport Shut as WW2 Bomb Found in Thames by user5994461 on Monday February 12, 2018 @11:20AM (#16359622)
The London-Paris eurostar is short and quite cheap. It's really good. I couldn't agree more with you.

The London-Lyon is disappointing. Better take a plane.

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Re:London City Airport Shut as WW2 Bomb Found in Thames by grkvlt on Monday February 12, 2018 @08:54PM (#16364143)
If you were flying daily then you'd have to be doing something terribly wrong to spend 1.5h getting through security - with airline status it should take minutes at worst, and even without status LCY has pretty minimal waiting times.
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