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Should be quite challenging on the local roads...
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Story from http://www.abtn.co.uk/
LUTON AIRPORT'S infamous pre-boarding lounges (the official title), better known to regulars as “The cattle pen”, have gone. These windowless ground floor rooms where passengers waited prior to walking across the apron to board their aircraft, each held a (tight) 150-passenger easyJet load. A small number of seats were provided for disabled passengers but for the rest it meant just standing in one of three lines in the hope that it would quickly move. With the new and airy first floor lounge passengers still have to wait in line, but many more seats are provided for the infirm and elderly and there is even a lift available, much used by mothers with toddlers in tow. The whole thing is more civilised
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There is something not quite right about this story as the pens are still there so they must be still in use. Are they saying that passengers now queue in the lounge? That doesn't sound right either
LUTON AIRPORT'S infamous pre-boarding lounges (the official title), better known to regulars as “The cattle pen”, have gone. These windowless ground floor rooms where passengers waited prior to walking across the apron to board their aircraft, each held a (tight) 150-passenger easyJet load. A small number of seats were provided for disabled passengers but for the rest it meant just standing in one of three lines in the hope that it would quickly move. With the new and airy first floor lounge passengers still have to wait in line, but many more seats are provided for the infirm and elderly and there is even a lift available, much used by mothers with toddlers in tow. The whole thing is more civilised
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There is something not quite right about this story as the pens are still there so they must be still in use. Are they saying that passengers now queue in the lounge? That doesn't sound right either
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Air Berlin are the third largest airline behind Ryanair and easyJet in terms of passengers at Stansted, so I doubt if the BAA would let them go without a fight? Having said that, Air Berlin fly to a lot of Spanish airports operated by Aena. Aena are one of the consortium partners operating Luton!
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Picnic baskets are 'food for thought'!
November 10th, the big media gathering for easyJet's 10th birthday. Rumours of a 'big' announcement to spoil the party?
You cannot book beyond April 2nd 2006 on Air Berlin's web site currently.
If ACDL pull off Air Berlin, I will be nice to all my visitors for a day!
You can feel the shrink wrapping on easyLand tightening every day as we approach thier 10th birthday and thier party gate crashing!
Rumours, we love em eh!
November 10th, the big media gathering for easyJet's 10th birthday. Rumours of a 'big' announcement to spoil the party?
You cannot book beyond April 2nd 2006 on Air Berlin's web site currently.
If ACDL pull off Air Berlin, I will be nice to all my visitors for a day!
You can feel the shrink wrapping on easyLand tightening every day as we approach thier 10th birthday and thier party gate crashing!
Rumours, we love em eh!
I see work has started on the M1 widening scheme between airport and the M25. What is needed now is something to be done to Junction 10A which is the half mile motorway link to the A505.
Since BAE moved into Capability Green from London with its 4 figure work force the tailback extends onto the M1 slip road in the mornings and along the A505 in the evenings. Next week TUI/ Thomson move out of their London offices and together with Britannia which is moving its offices out of the airport will occupy the top three floors of Wigmore Place http://www.pro-view.co.uk/wigmore/about/index.htm. Wigmore Place is described on another website as one of the largest office blocks in the south east. Some how I think the traffic is about to get a lot worse.
Since BAE moved into Capability Green from London with its 4 figure work force the tailback extends onto the M1 slip road in the mornings and along the A505 in the evenings. Next week TUI/ Thomson move out of their London offices and together with Britannia which is moving its offices out of the airport will occupy the top three floors of Wigmore Place http://www.pro-view.co.uk/wigmore/about/index.htm. Wigmore Place is described on another website as one of the largest office blocks in the south east. Some how I think the traffic is about to get a lot worse.
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LTN's Draft Masterplan for the expansion of the airport as permitted by the 2003 White Paper, will be published the week commencing 17 October, after which a period of 12 weeks will follow for public consultation. The full & final Masterplan should then be made public in late March or early April 06.
As & when any announcement is made, one should not automatically assume it will be a ' Party Pooper '. It may turn out to be quite the opposite, but who knows......
I think that is a bit of a tall order at the moment, but if it comes off Buster, I will be nice to all your visitors for a month!.
November 10th, the big media gathering for easyJet's 10th birthday. Rumours of a 'big' announcement to spoil the party?
If ACDL pull off Air Berlin, I will be nice to all my visitors for a day!
easyJet announces major expansion at Luton
Already announced!
easyJet, Europe's leading low-cost airline, today announced significant growth from its base at London Luton Airport. The airline will be adding three more aircraft to the existing 13, representing a growth of 25% by the end of the winter.
Details of the new destinations will be released within the next few weeks, and will reflect the airline's ongoing strategy to link the most attractive and popular destination airports.
Over five million passengers have flown from the Luton base in the last 12 months, and the airline intends to increase this figure to over six million within the next year.
Ray Webster easyJet Chief Executive commented:
"Luton was easyJet's first base and has always proved to be a successful and profitable market. Today's announcement reflects our commitment to London, and the Herts, Beds and Bucks regions. We intend to continue with our planned growth and envisage further successful development from Luton".
Yes this story from their website dated 21st July 2004 but we are all still waiting as they didn't say which winter they were talking about.
easyJet, Europe's leading low-cost airline, today announced significant growth from its base at London Luton Airport. The airline will be adding three more aircraft to the existing 13, representing a growth of 25% by the end of the winter.
Details of the new destinations will be released within the next few weeks, and will reflect the airline's ongoing strategy to link the most attractive and popular destination airports.
Over five million passengers have flown from the Luton base in the last 12 months, and the airline intends to increase this figure to over six million within the next year.
Ray Webster easyJet Chief Executive commented:
"Luton was easyJet's first base and has always proved to be a successful and profitable market. Today's announcement reflects our commitment to London, and the Herts, Beds and Bucks regions. We intend to continue with our planned growth and envisage further successful development from Luton".
Yes this story from their website dated 21st July 2004 but we are all still waiting as they didn't say which winter they were talking about.
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LTN's Draft Masterplan for the expansion of the airport as permitted by the 2003 White Paper, will be published the week commencing 17 October
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Easy Jet announced that expansion to pee on Ryanair's announcement of their Luton expansion.
Wigmore Place has been empty for years, bar a couple of used offices. It is a bit of a white elephant IMO. Yes, it may make things busier on Junction 10 I know people who work in recruitment and a lot of people are leaving their jobs, being replaced by people based in Luton.
Not many people will be commuting from their current location in Kingston, London.
Wigmore Place has been empty for years, bar a couple of used offices. It is a bit of a white elephant IMO. Yes, it may make things busier on Junction 10 I know people who work in recruitment and a lot of people are leaving their jobs, being replaced by people based in Luton.
Not many people will be commuting from their current location in Kingston, London.
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Following the link to Wigmore Place ... Wigmore Place is well located, just 33 miles north of London. I Eh??? I don't have time to check this but it sounds like too short a distance? As I understand it, all distances from London are measured from the Charing Cross.
There was a hostile editorial in one of the local rags about the owners of Wigmore Place putting in a planning application to build a 3 acre car park on Wigmore Valley Park for the office workers. I would love to know how a building of this size got planning approval without the provision of adequate parking spaces. NTL who are also in the building have been renting an airport car park next to the car hire centre for years.
I see that Atlantic have taken on a DHL contract to fly nightly to Brussels using an Electra which is replacing I believe the Swiftair Convair. I have heard that an ATP will replace the Electra.
I see that Atlantic have taken on a DHL contract to fly nightly to Brussels using an Electra which is replacing I believe the Swiftair Convair. I have heard that an ATP will replace the Electra.
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The most likely 'new' sights at Luton will be Spanish speaking airlines who AENA - unlike BAA - already has a good business relationship at its Spanish airports.
There is an intent to spend approx £200m in additional infrastructure over the next 18 months including another six stands immediately south of the existing East Apron, and improved taxiway links to both (existing) runway ends. Planning permission will be sought but LLAO has several cards 'up its sleeve' which it will offer in return, and which could prove attractive to the local NIMBYs.
Annual passenger figues are therefore, expected to reach 10m by next Summer.
As to the local roads - who knows? Luton Borough Council and Bedfordshire County Council don't spend money on local road improvements: they're still stuck in the canal building and navvies era...
There is an intent to spend approx £200m in additional infrastructure over the next 18 months including another six stands immediately south of the existing East Apron, and improved taxiway links to both (existing) runway ends. Planning permission will be sought but LLAO has several cards 'up its sleeve' which it will offer in return, and which could prove attractive to the local NIMBYs.
Annual passenger figues are therefore, expected to reach 10m by next Summer.
As to the local roads - who knows? Luton Borough Council and Bedfordshire County Council don't spend money on local road improvements: they're still stuck in the canal building and navvies era...
The short term and staff car parks have been pencilled in for years as a potential 6 stand apron. A new apron the size of the existing east apron would end up at the front door of the Harrods terminal. A plan did and maybe still does exist that shows another pier between the south apron and this potential new apron.
Love to know where the short term and staff car parks will end up. My guess is the mid term car park on the wrong side of the tunnel. Will Luton end up with the UK’s first short term car park that is a bus ride away???
Is it time that easyjet moved out of the central area to create some space seeing that there is a nice Britannia HQ that is about to be vacated. Easyjet have just opened a large training academy just round the corner from Britannia’s HQ so this location would be ideal.
Love to know where the short term and staff car parks will end up. My guess is the mid term car park on the wrong side of the tunnel. Will Luton end up with the UK’s first short term car park that is a bus ride away???
Is it time that easyjet moved out of the central area to create some space seeing that there is a nice Britannia HQ that is about to be vacated. Easyjet have just opened a large training academy just round the corner from Britannia’s HQ so this location would be ideal.
There is an intent to spend approx £200m in additional infrastructure over the next 18 months
As for the mid term car park, this is set to get a lot smaller. A full length parallel taxiway with eat into the southern side of it while the new duel carriageway down to the A 505 will cut the western side of it in half.