From the latest newsletter of Airport Watch, a UK counterpart of CommunityAIR:

Protestors at London City Airport gave the new BA all business, luxury service to New York a noisy send off. The flight, which has to refuel at Shannon on the way because City's runway is too short for a fully fuelled plane, will bring yet more misery to those affected by the airport. The new flight is one of the least fuel efficient means there is to get to New York, in plane designed for 110, but converted for only 32 full length bed seats.

The new service has been given the same flight number as Concorde (about the most noisy and most polluting passenger plane ever produced) - BA001.

 The airport was formerly known as the London City Centre Airport, but its location, some 9 km east of London Bridge, belied that description, and it was recently changed.

 Toronto is the only city in the world with an airport located in its city centre.

 Brian Iler