I don’t think the airport has ever completed any building work on time. Even small projects seem to end up being finished late. 2007 for completion of phase 1 and 2012 for phase 2 will never happen. Stansted who are a good year ahead of Luton in planning for a second runway have already seen the opening date put back to 2015.
Planning issues and objectors will cause no doubt most of the delays. The planned new route into the airport is a good example of how a project can hit one delay after another. This route was meant to have been finished by now yet still does not have a start date. As for Thameslink 2000…..
The anti-Luton brigade have picked up on the fact that despite the airport claiming that the old runway will be used mainly as a back up runway as at Gatwick it will in fact be used at the same time as the new runway. I think the protestors have a point as I can’t see the airport letting 2160m of concrete go to waste.