The difference with Luton is that there was very little scheduled flying going from there before easyJet. The two that spring to mind, Ryanair and Monarch, are still there. Even Ryanair pulled a load of flights from LTN about 10 years ago. Just rememebred, I will concede the airport lost its daily BRAL flight to BHD. Big shame that!
There always seemed to be rumours of someone trying to fly domestic schedules from LTN but never came to anything.
Whilst easyJet is undoubtedly Luton's airline saviour, would I be right in guessing the airport makes its money from the corporate aircraft movements there?
WT
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