Quote from an old document still on the airports website “ The new terminal building is designed for a passenger throughput of approximately 5 million passengers”
Well the space allocated to each passenger must have been generous in the extreme as the terminal still has plenty of space with its present day 8.3 million passengers or was this “slight” underestimate a way of avoiding a public inquiry in the late 90’s?
So would anyone like to guess what the true capacity of Luton is without the long term prospect of moving south of the runway which must be around 10 years away at a minimum? The next priorities for the airport must be sorting out the drop off zone and bus station, which was already at capacity 2 years ago according to a report. The mowing down of a bus queue yesterday will add urgency to this. No point in adding stands for more aircraft if passengers can’t get to the terminal.