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Old 14th Oct 2016, 04:40
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Absolutely amazing, 15M will be next, place your bets please!
Yes, but not necessarily next year or the year after. As some point the Brexit factor will kick in with people being squeezed by inflationary pressures, a drop in savings income and a poor exchange rate with rising air fares, which will lead to less breaks and maybe even less foreign holidays.

It would not surprise me that Thomas Cook will eventually consolidate its flights for next year and will push its Luton passengers back to Gatwick to fill the aircraft there.

I think growth will continue from migrants and their families. A walk around the airport and its bus station and drop off area demonstrates quite nicely how many Eastern Europeans actually use Luton as English is fast becoming a second language.

Of course breaks to the UK by the rest of the EU will grow but I don't think it will keep pace with Brits cutting back.
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