LUTON

[WOWBOY]

Heathrow - 67,744,436 up 1.9%
Gatwick - 32,399,161 up 5.6%
Stansted - 21,704,443 up 6.8%
Manchester - 21,685,741 up 5.4%
Birmingham - 8,964,746 down 0.4%
Glasgow - 8,717,959 up 4.8%
Luton - 8,619,477 up 22.7%
Edinburgh - 8,269,376 up 6.3%

What are the next 10 airports after EDI-I AM LAZY

[LGS6753]

LBIA -

How do you work out that SweFly will use their 767? The flight numbers continue to be different for the two legs.

[LBIA]

Heres the revised programme for the swefly B767. This is how i worked it out anyway. See below.

You might be right thou. Who's to say something else might turn up. You never know with theses guys at the moment, So far we have had Transwede RJ70's, Swefly B767-200 and that MD80

MONDAYS
Leeds/Bradford 16:40 Skavasta 20:00 VW443
Skavasta 21:00 Lahore 07:15* VW921

TUESDAYS
Lahore 09:00 Skavasta 12:45 VW922
Skavasta 13:45 Luton 15:55 VW442 (Nightstops Luton)

WEDNESDAYS
Luton 16:40 Skavasta 20:00 VW441
Skavasta 21:00 Lahore 07:15* VW921

Thursdasy
Lahore 09:00 Skavasta 12:45 VW922
Skavasta 13:45 Leeds/Bradford 15:55 VW444
Leeds/Bradford 16:40 Skavasta 20:00 VW443
Skavasta 21:00 Lahore 07:15* VW921

FRIDAYS
Lahore 09:00 Skavasta 12:45 VW922
Skavasta 13:45 Luton 15:55 VW442 (Nightstops Luton)

SATURDAYS
Luton 16:40 Skavasta 20:00 VW441
Skavasta 21:00 Lahore 07:15* VW921

SUNDAYS
Lahore 09:00 Skavasta 12:45 VW922
Skavasta 13:45 Leeds/Bradford 15:55 VW444 (Night Stops Leeds/Bradford)

(* Flight VW921 arrives Lahore 07:15 the next day)

[Powerjet1]

Pax nos at LTN for the Bank Holiday weekend likely to hit 70k, 160k at STN. Most other uk airports expected to do extremely well over the next three days.l

[Powerjet1]

Wizz's winter schedule ex LTN seems to show a net increase in weekly departures of 8 to 48, over W04. Breakdown is BUD 7, GDN 13, KTW 11, POZ 4, WAW 13.

[King Pong]

Used the new inbound passenger facilities a few days ago after the aircraft parked on stand 44 at 4 in the morning. The new lower level walk via the new pier is a big improvement on using the bus but I did note that the escalator was not working and that touching up work on the lower pier has yet to be finished.

The new immigration area is a bit soulless but much bigger than the old area with 9 inspection counters although only 2 were in use when I passed through.

The baggage reclaim area is still a total mess and a real disappointment. At the moment there are still only the 3 original baggage belts in use. Last year I am sure there were 4 but the location of the old domestic belt is now part of the route from immigration to the baggage hall so it has been removed. The new baggage belt that I mentioned a few weeks ago that ascends from the service road in between the new terminal and the new immigration hall doesn’t actually make it into the baggage hall. I could see it through a closed staff door so what it is going to be used for I haven’t a clue. Maybe this is the new domestic belt although I doubt it as domestic passengers would have to cross the path of international arriving passengers in the immigration hall to get to this belt. Also I could not see a passenger entrance only a staff door.

The baggage hall has a temporary wooden wall running through the length of it where the old immigration counters were located so it is clear that the baggage reclaim area is going to be expanded but what really lets the hall down is the state of the floor. The middle section of the hall still has those terrible plastic floor tiles, which wore out around 5 years ago and were randomly replaced with non-matching tiles. I really hope this section will be renewed with new stone tiles.

Our flight was the only flight waiting for luggage but with only 3 visible belts in use and short belts at that it must be a terrible place to be if passengers from 6 or 7 flights are all waiting for luggage.

One of the arriving passengers wanted to go through the red channel and declare something but this area was roped off and as there were no staff on duty in the green channel she got away with what ever she was carrying.

[King Pong]

Some interesting facts can be found in the minutes of a meeting held in June but only released onto the net this month at http://www.llacc.com/CurrentMeeting.asp including a new airport project called Solitaire

[OLNEY 1 BRAVO]

Project Solitaire

I would guess that this is the re-development of the two old finger stands near to the run-up bay. They have been out of service for around 10 years (if not more) but because there are already there, bringing them back into service will not need Planning Permission.

Some interesting pieces in the Minutes ... including the need for NATS to explain at the 19th September meeting why lots of planes fly over the Vale of Aylesbury ... answer Luton outbound/inbounds, Heathrow outbounds/inbounds, Stansted outbounds and a few inbounds, London City inbounds .. shall I continue?

[King Pong]

There is not even a hint of those old finger stands in this recent aerial photo http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=506910 my guess is that two new stands will go in opposite stands 47 and 48 which will leave the entrance to the short term car park alone. I wouldn’t have thought that stands here would not need planning permission which was also the case I believe with stands 60 and 61 as the area was already concreted over. They will then put in a pier at some point which already has planning permission to serve these two stands plus stands 46, 47, and 48.

Interesting that there are no plans for a multi story car park

The new baggage belt that I mentioned a few weeks ago that ascends from the service road in between the new terminal and the new immigration hall doesn’t actually make it into the baggage hall. I could see it through a closed staff door so what it is going to be used for I haven’t a clue.

New signage is going up in the terminal which is part covered up. It looks like this belt is going to be used for outsized luggage. This would free up the area to the left of check-in desk 1 for a couple of more check-in desks.

[vintage ATCO]

I would guess that this is the re-development of the two old finger stands near to the run-up bay. They have been out of service for around 10 years (if not more) but because there are already there, bringing them back into service will not need Planning Permission.

Long gone. They disappeared when we built the parallel. And we don't want stands there again, thank you!

[King Pong]

Recently the stands between 1R to 9L were remarked and repositioned. The following is a list of the maximum sized aircraft these stands can now handle. The days of parking aircraft up to the size of Tristars here are well and truly over.


Stand 1R Boeing 757
Stand 1 Boeing 737-800
Stand 2 Boeing 737-800
Stand 3 Boeing 737-800
Stand 4 Boeing 737-800
Stand 5 Boeing 737-700
Stand 6 Boeing 737-800
Stand 7 Boeing 737-700
Stand 8 Boeing 737-700
Stand 9 Boeing 737-700
Stand 9L Boeing 737-700

Does anyone know if 747's can still be handled on the north apron since the peir was built?

[King Pong]

First Choice

The following was posted on another thread but is relevant to be posted here.


Well FCA seem to be placing their trust in them, seeing that they have decided to make LTN a permanent base as of November 1. Cabin crew and pilots will be based there all year round in the company's first new permanent base since EMA in November 2002. According to the commercial ops plots, SSH will be operating every Monday from November 7. Along with Ovda on Tuesdays from December until March, Fuerteventura -Wednesdays, Lanzarote - Thursdays, Tenerife - Fridays.

At weekends the aircraft will be going to EDI and GLA for the ski season.

[GrahamK]

BMI Regional launching LTN-BRU
BMI launch LTN-BRU and EDI-MUC

[nickmanl]

An odd decision by BMI. The route will probably work brilliantly, but BMI will probably cancel it because of their lack of coherent management, then EZY or RYR will step into the frame.

[Powerjet1]

Doesn't seem to be in the booking system as stated in their trade news section, unlike EDI-MUC which is. Good if it is true and somewhat unexpected. However, with Eurostar starting services from St. Pancras in 2007, the route will suffer like easy's CDG.

[bmibaby.com]

The new LTNBRU service is being operated by bmi regional using one of their ERJ-145 aircraft. It'll be interesting to see whether these flights will involve a based aircraft & crew, or whether these will be operated from another base.

Remember that bmi regional is the part of the bmi group that tends to operate high-yield & niche markets, which presumably with no no-frills airline on the route LTNBRU is.

It is a bit confusing at the moment though. bmi will now have three brands in London; bmi from LHR (some routes all-economy no-frills & others with business class), bmibaby at LGW (all economy no-frills) & bmi regional at LTN (economy full-service and business class.

[Mark Lewis]

I guess it will run a W pattern through BRU from LBA, EMA, or EDI?

[GrahamK]

Seems to be a LTN based ERJ145 operating LTN-BRU 3 x Daily

[Powerjet1]

GrahamK

Re your last post, is that an inspired guess or do you have other info, since I cannot see any flight details/booking availability on their website.

[LGS6753]

It wouldn't be worth starting a route like this unless it was at least twice daily at business-friendly times (early am/late pm), therefore unlikely to be on 'W' pattern.