Full Master Plan:
Masterplan - London Luton Airport
Not much changes really. One improvements are a new pier which wouldn't actually increase the amount of stands and an extension of the current taxiways.
LLAOL’s main proposals for the future of the Airport are:- Dualling the road from the Holiday Inn roundabout along Airport Way into the heart of the Airport, the ‘Central Terminal Area’.
- Bringing the currently unused parts of the terminal building back into active use.
- Extending the front of the terminal building to create a new entrance foyer with more passenger seating and retail areas on the upper level.
- Building a new southern ‘pier’ with gates for passengers to gain access to their aircraft.
- Reorganising the internal layout of the terminal building to create a more logical route through the building from check in, through security to passenger waiting lounges and then to the aircraft boarding gates. This will also apply to arriving passengers who will have an easier route from their aircraft through to immigration
- control, baggage reclaim and then out of the terminal building.
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By 2030, the Government’s Department for Transport forecasts that demand for air travel through London’s airports will be 180 million passengers per year. Within this, London Luton is forecast to grow to 15-16 million passengers.
I haven't got the numbers to hand, but how do the forecasts differ so greatly? I've been critical of exponential forecasting in the past, but surely these forecasts completely under-estimate traffic in the next 18 years. Surely LTN will grow by more than 50% in 18 years? Since 1999, the airport has grown about five times!