Sale of Luton airport expected to be confirmed - www.travelweekly.co.uk
Lets hope AENA make Luton work for themselves, and could potentially be an exciting era ahead for the airport, being managed by the worlds largest airport operator.
They own some pretty nice and impressive airports in Spain and would be nice if they can bring a touch of that style to Luton...
It is not a major issue, but a concern however, AENA do seem to have a bit of a love and hate issue with the Low Cost Carrier airlines that operate into their Spanish airports, and this is the very markets they will be working with here.
Take for example easyJet and Ryanair at Madrid and Barcelona, dramatically reduced their bases at both airports, after AENA decided to dramatically increase fees. AENA did not seem afraid to stand up to the airlines, and have never managed to entice them back with the sizes they once had.
You also have the issue at Alicante where Ryanair were happily using their air stairs to board/disembark aircraft, and AENA then enforced all airlines they must use the airbridges and this in turn dramatically increased fees, and Ryanair again dramatically reduced the base from twleve aircraft down to four. Other airlines like Jet2, BMI Baby (as they were) and easyJet were also very unhappy and vocal with this policy.
I just hope AENA do not try to get too greedy or enforce some draconian measures that will go against the Low Cost airlines business model.