You could question whether it is worth Luton touting for more based low cost business simply due to the cost of providing additional facilities?
A very valid point Buster, and one that's not lost on the Madrid-based management of ACDL or on the incumbents slumbering in Luton's Town Hall.
The fact is that despite the touchingly benevolent attitude towards Luton Borough Council (LBC) that you and others take, since the days of Lorraine Chase it's been an absolute Albatros around LTN's neck simply because of the paraochial short-term approach that LBC has always taken - and continues to take despite now having a major international multi-million £ company running its airport.
Even though the corporate market is highly lucrative and good business for ACDL, if LBC fails to take a long-term business-like attitude towards LTN in its entirity - and particularly its development potential (which means thinking 'outside the box' and embracing Project 2030) - in 25 years time when the current Concession has expired and with STN having a second runway (= less slot constraints) and further improved facilities, LTN will if it's lucky, resemble Southend (once busier than even LGW) and if it's unlucky, will resemble Lydd.
LBC's 'golden goose' will be effectively dead, and the millions creamed-off lost in various half-baked trendy left-wing projects and initiatives, with nothing left to show for it. The hapless citizens of Luton in 2030 will then be left paying higher council tax whilst dreaming about what was and what might have been.
Can anyone please confirm if the full lighting is now in place on "26" and that full Cat 3b approaches are now possible?
LTN is now fully Category 3b on both runways 08 and 26, and will remain so.
