As I said before, LTN was a joke in the 80's and will continue to be. Best thing would be to build new, away from the current operation then once open, redevelop the old.
So where would you build it and don't say South of the runway as that would take years to get planning permission so what do you do in the meantime?
But lets face it, that will never happen so in another 10-20 years, this thread will still be open and we'll still be talking about how bad LTN is.
Probably will but before 10 years is reached the airport will be still maxed out at 18 million passengers because the demand is there.
In a separate snapshot investigation, we found holidaymakers could save almost £600 by switching their chosen airport on a seven-night break. A summer holiday to Portugal departing from Luton with Thomson could be £584 cheaper if you flew from Gatwick instead.”
Now this is the real story. Thomson greed? How many of its passengers fly from Gatwick rather than Luton because of the price difference? Package tours used to be Luton's bread and butter now it is cheaper to fly Easyjet and sort out your own accommodation despite the buying power of Thomson.