14, great idea but isn't the land at that end owned by the water authotity? I'm sure that there used to be an underground reservoir at that end. Also didn't Luton close at night in order to build up part of the runway to make it flat to enable the CAT 3 to work better? Could LBA not do this! As the highest airport in Britain surely it would make sense to have a fully useable CAT 3 ILS, especially with the forthcomming Jet2 operation. Also of note, is when it is poor vis at LBA the wind is usually favoring 14 which I believe is only CAT 1 at the moment. Given the 3.5 degree glideslope on that end I doubt this could be improved. As for Buzz/Astaeus I doubt either would consider LBA with Jet2 and perhahps another LCA with 2 MD83s supposidly starting in 2003.
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