Luton is ahead of Stansted
That's interesting. It'd be revealing to know which airlines these interlining passengers are using as presumably, it isn't easyJet or Ryanair (or Wizz or Monarch Scheduled).
Luton Borough Counc...in return for doing absolutely nothing constructive or helpfu
This is an understatement! LBC has effectively scuppered Project 2030, and seems only to be interested in trying to squeeze a 'quart into a pint pot' by encouraging development of the existing cramped site. Quite how LBC envisages such an expanded airport efficiently processing 20 million annual passengers and the associated ground activity, goodness knows. The problem is that its officials appear neither commercially-minded nor aviation specialists and so are seemingly quite unable to grasp the concept of what's actually needed to move Luton into League Division 1.
A well-placed source has indicated that ACDL's Spanish management is beginning to get frustrated with the Council's approach and that the break clause in the Concession agreement in 2015 could see ACDL simply walking away before the increased business that it's struggled to generate is lost almost overnight, to the likes of an expanded Stansted.
Alas, it seems that only then - and too late - will LBC perhaps wake up to the realities of running an international airport in an aggressively commercial airport environment.
