Who would want to expand at Luton anyway? OK, Easyjet originally chose it because it was cheap, but now they have a bit of money behind them, if I were them I think I would leave. Look at Stansted. Having seen both airports under a considerable amount of pressure, I can safely say that Stansted coped 200 times better than Luton (eg. snow closures). Luton is ill equipped for the amount of traffic it recieves, and we have already seen that it cannot cope under even slightly bad weather. Are they really in a position to charge the amount they do for using this airport?
I think the fact is Luton will always be unpopular whilst there are better London airports the same distance away with miles better facilities. I think Stelios must be regretting his choice of Luton as a base now, one of the reasons I thought he might have invested in Go. Just out of interest, does anyone know the difference in landing fees between LUT and STN?
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Cheers,
G-BPEC
[This message has been edited by G-BPEC (edited 07 April 2001).]