London City Airport will reopen this weekend after almost three months without a single passenger flight, reviving a key travel artery to the U.K. capital’s main financial districts.
Services will initially be confined to the British Isles, starting with the Isle of Man from Sunday and links to Scotland, northern England and Dublin next month, the airport said in a statement Thursday.
London City, favored by business travelers for its short boarding times and proximity to both the City and Canary Wharf financial centers, closed to traffic on March 25, with only a handful of military planes using it since.
The airport backed calls to scrap the quarantine policy and replace it with so-called air bridges allowing unlimited travel between specific countries. It said a survey of 4,700 customers showed 79% would most likely travel as soon as being told it was safe to do so.