> This airport means that a good share of the east londonders have to live their lives under noise so the 1% can get to their meeting a little bit more easily.
Try living under the Heathrow flightpath before you complain about City airport.
Do you actually live near London City Airport? I live a mile away from there and the noise level over here in Woolwich is negligible. Perhaps we're not under the flight path.
I used to live in the flight path of another airport but even there the noise from road traffic was orders of magnitude worse than any noise from air traffic.
That said, I don't doubt that some people are badly affected.
Try living under the Heathrow flightpath before you complain about City airport.