This is not a good week for LTN...
After Servisair shutting up shop at Luton and SkyEurope ceasing operations, easyJet have today announced their summer programme next year will be reduced by 20% and they are also closing their East Mids base!
easyJet announces network redeployments
BBC NEWS | Business | Jobs at risk in Easyjet closures
Not good news at all! I wonder if their are any airlines waiting to fill the gap!
It seems like the threat in the news a few weeks ago was not, an empty threat.
On BBC 3CR the chairman of easyJet was talking to Jonathan Vernon-Smith and said how Abertis were not willing to negotiate of airport charges and blamed them for this move. He explained how other bases (probably LGW) were now also more profitable than LTN and these aircraft would be deployed to these bases.
This also means a significant number of job losses to a town, that really does not need this news right now. Numbers have not been mentioned yet...
I live up in Northamptonshire, so LTN and EMA are my local(ish) airports and cut my choice quite significantly.