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business · City PM
“clocking up 42 years in the airline business”
42 years
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business · City PM
“Aged just 18, Gooding left rural Suffolk to work as an apprentice for British European Airways”
18 years
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business · City PM
“At 62, Gooding’s staying power is noteworthy.”
62 years
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business · City PM
“He has been in charge of London City for 14 of the 22 years that the airport has been open”
14 years
22 years
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business · City PM
“Gooding bustles his heavyset 6’ 2” frame into a meeting room at the airport’s functional beige and blue headquarters a stone’s throw away from the runway.”
6.1667 feet
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world · City PM
“The airport, which handled 3.3m passengers last year (a 12 per cent rise on 2007), expects to see passenger numbers fall 10 per cent this year.”
3.3 million
12 %
10 %
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business · City PM
“Gooding has frozen staff numbers at 400, although the airport – which is ideal for Canary Wharf and only seven miles from the City – indirectly provides work for another 2,500 in the Docklands.”
400 staff
2500 jobs
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finance · City PM
“Over the last five years the business had spent £30m building new aircraft stands and another £20m installing a new baggage system, doubling the size of the departure area in its terminal building.”
30 GBP
20 GBP
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finance · City PM
“However, 2007 – the most recent figures for the private firm – was a stellar year for the business. Its full-year figures rocketed 94 per cent to £33.4m on the back of a double-digit increases in pas…”
94 %
33.4 GBP
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world · City PM
“The brightest spot on the airport’s horizon this year is the British Airways (BA) business class-only launch from London City to New York JFK on 29 September.”
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world · City PM
“This will see the British flag carrier flying modified Airbus A318s with 32 flatbed seats twice a day across the Atlantic with a check‑in time of just 15 minutes.”
32 seats
2 times per day
15 minutes
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world · City PM
“The aircraft will take off from City’s runway, which is only 1,199 meters long, about a third as long as Heathrow or Gatwick.”
1199 meters
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world · City PM
“Gooding’s burly figure has long been a fixture at the airport that was built by builders Mowlem and first began to operate on 26 October 1987.”
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business · City PM
“Gooding was first brought to the airport by Desmond in 1996.”
1996
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business · City PM
“Before that he worked for 15 years at BA in a variety of posts, including as its area manager in Jordan.”
15 years
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business · City PM
“He became operations director at Manchester Airport in 1981 for four years, before founding ground-handling firm Ogden Allied.”
1981
4 years
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business · City PM
“Gooding left to become chief executive of Luton Airport in 1991.”
1991
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business · City PM
“He was lured away by Desmond five years later.”
5 years
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world · City PM
“Airlines offer a 20-minute check-in time for passengers with hand luggage and a minimum of 30 for those with luggage.”
20 minutes
30 minutes
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world · City PM
“A “no-queues” policy means the average time for a passenger to process security takes two minutes.”
2 minutes