British Airways is in the final stages of evaluating potential replacements for the 10 BAE Systems Avro RJ100s operated at London City by its CityFlyer subsidiary.

BA commercial director Robert Boyle says the carrier is looking at the Embraer 170/190 family and “may look again” at turboprops. He adds that switching to younger RJ-family aircraft is also a possibility.

CityFlyer’s 10 RJ100s were manufactured between 1997 and 2000, according to Flight’s ACAS database.

Boyle says BA has excluded from the study the Airbus A318, which the carrier is acquiring for its new all-business London City-New York operation, because it is too heavy

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