I had a long chat with an airport manager that I have known for years but rarely see. We talked about the master plan and expansion of the airport. The manager said the new master plan appears to be to do nothing and that there are no plans to do anything apart from care and maintenance, as the Spanish masters will not release any money for the airport.
The manager told me that there was a plan to tackle the chronic congestion in the central area including one plan to dual the approach road through the tunnel but this seems to have been dropped now due to a lack of funding.
With expansion taking place as Stansted, Biggin Hill and Farnborough, which is now the UK’s busiest business jet airport the manager told me that by doing nothing the airport would loose business to other airports that see Luton’s aircraft as potentially their aircraft.
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