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Aer Arann web translation of a news report:
One company with low tariffs will settle in Bierset as of April, announced Wednesday direction of Liege-Airport during a press conference. The company Irish Aer Arann will propose three new lines, towards London-Luton and Birmingham in Great Britain, and towards Lorient in France. The company, already established in England and Ireland, currently only one connection offers towards the continent, namely towards Lorient in Brittany. By installing two of its apparatuses in Liege, Aer Arann wants to establish a head of bridge on the continent to intensify its activities at the beginning of the airport of Bierset. For the airport inhabitant of Liège, it acts of a determining stage in its strategy of development, reinforced by the opening of its new terminal passengers in last March.
So does this account for the early morning arrival to operate the Lorient flight? Liege from memory is close to the Dutch & German borders and not too far from Maastricht, infact the Ryanair stronghold of Brussels South (Charleroi) must only be 60 miles away. If the F1 Grand Prix takes place, Spa is just down the road. The industrail region including Cologne and Dusseldorf are just over an hour away by road........Geography lesson over!
Sofia direct by Wizz, yet more good news, should see them carry a million plus passenger through Luton in a year?
One company with low tariffs will settle in Bierset as of April, announced Wednesday direction of Liege-Airport during a press conference. The company Irish Aer Arann will propose three new lines, towards London-Luton and Birmingham in Great Britain, and towards Lorient in France. The company, already established in England and Ireland, currently only one connection offers towards the continent, namely towards Lorient in Brittany. By installing two of its apparatuses in Liege, Aer Arann wants to establish a head of bridge on the continent to intensify its activities at the beginning of the airport of Bierset. For the airport inhabitant of Liège, it acts of a determining stage in its strategy of development, reinforced by the opening of its new terminal passengers in last March.
So does this account for the early morning arrival to operate the Lorient flight? Liege from memory is close to the Dutch & German borders and not too far from Maastricht, infact the Ryanair stronghold of Brussels South (Charleroi) must only be 60 miles away. If the F1 Grand Prix takes place, Spa is just down the road. The industrail region including Cologne and Dusseldorf are just over an hour away by road........Geography lesson over!
Sofia direct by Wizz, yet more good news, should see them carry a million plus passenger through Luton in a year?
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Originally Posted by Powerjet1
From 1 May Wizz will start direct flights to Sofia from LTN on at least four days a week, other days via BUD.
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Well I make it 66 return flights per week by Wizz come the summer! Astonishing! Next stop Romania....I wonder? Destinations that easyJet should have been serving first, but for thier affair with Airbus and Gatwick! If I held shares in easyJet, I would demand to know why there has been little penetration into the former Eastern Europe! Then again, Monarch Scheduled are just as guilty?
New:
Wizz: Sofia, Ljubljana, Split, Bourgas and Zagreb.
Arann: Liege, Lorient.
easyJet: Lisbon.
Eric Morcambe International is correct, Luton laughing at the BAA! A few slaps around the face for Ernie (Wise) Stansted!
Ljubljana, Split....Kind of takes me back to my child hood, Inex Adria DC9-30's and Aviogenex TU134's!
What next, Catair (Caravelle, too young for the Connie), Bavaria and Germanair (1-11)?
Anyway, if Stansted can develop using money made from Gatwick and Heathrow, I am sure then that Luton can charge passengers at Cardiff, Belfast and Skavsta.....'A Make Luton Bigger' tax? Only fair surely?
New:
Wizz: Sofia, Ljubljana, Split, Bourgas and Zagreb.
Arann: Liege, Lorient.
easyJet: Lisbon.
Eric Morcambe International is correct, Luton laughing at the BAA! A few slaps around the face for Ernie (Wise) Stansted!
Ljubljana, Split....Kind of takes me back to my child hood, Inex Adria DC9-30's and Aviogenex TU134's!
What next, Catair (Caravelle, too young for the Connie), Bavaria and Germanair (1-11)?
Anyway, if Stansted can develop using money made from Gatwick and Heathrow, I am sure then that Luton can charge passengers at Cardiff, Belfast and Skavsta.....'A Make Luton Bigger' tax? Only fair surely?
Scheduled services summer 06
OK lets have a go at this:
UK: Aberdeen, Inverness, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Isle of Man, Belfast, Jersey (7)
France: Brest, Grenoble, Nimes, Nice, Reims, Lorient, Paris CDG (7)
Spain: Gerona, Barcelona, Reus, Alicante, Murcia, Malaga, Madrid, Palma Mahon, Tenerife, Las Palmas, Arrecife (12)
Ireland: Dublin, Galway, Waterford, Shannon, Knock (5)
Italy: Rome, Cagliari, Turin, Bergamo (4)
Poland: Katowice, Krakow, Warsaw, Gdansk, Poznan (5)
Germany: Berlin SXF, Dortmund, Bremen (3)
Croatia: Zagreb, Ljubljana, Split (3)
Switzerland: Zurich, Geneva, Basle (3)
Cyprus: Paphos, Larnaca (2)
Bulgaria: Sofia, Bourgas (2)
Portugal: Faro, Lisbon (2)
Austria: Klagenfurt (1)
Gibraltar (1)
Belgium: Liege (1)
Sweden: Stockholm VST (1)
Greece: Athens (1)
Slovakia: Bratislava (1)
Hungary: Budapest (1)
Holland: Amsterdam (1)
Total 63. Gulp.
UK: Aberdeen, Inverness, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Isle of Man, Belfast, Jersey (7)
France: Brest, Grenoble, Nimes, Nice, Reims, Lorient, Paris CDG (7)
Spain: Gerona, Barcelona, Reus, Alicante, Murcia, Malaga, Madrid, Palma Mahon, Tenerife, Las Palmas, Arrecife (12)
Ireland: Dublin, Galway, Waterford, Shannon, Knock (5)
Italy: Rome, Cagliari, Turin, Bergamo (4)
Poland: Katowice, Krakow, Warsaw, Gdansk, Poznan (5)
Germany: Berlin SXF, Dortmund, Bremen (3)
Croatia: Zagreb, Ljubljana, Split (3)
Switzerland: Zurich, Geneva, Basle (3)
Cyprus: Paphos, Larnaca (2)
Bulgaria: Sofia, Bourgas (2)
Portugal: Faro, Lisbon (2)
Austria: Klagenfurt (1)
Gibraltar (1)
Belgium: Liege (1)
Sweden: Stockholm VST (1)
Greece: Athens (1)
Slovakia: Bratislava (1)
Hungary: Budapest (1)
Holland: Amsterdam (1)
Total 63. Gulp.
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If someone told me 10 years ago that in 2006 Luton would have 63 scheduled services, a new terminal that would be handling 10 million passengers a year together with new aprons and piers then I wouldn’t have believed them. Maybe Luton should be named after the man who has done more than anyone else in putting Luton on the map. 
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Wizz operate flights W6401/W6410 to Kaunas via Warsaw(no plane change) so this would give 64 sch destinations from LTN at the moment. Wonder what it will be by June 30th!!!!. Wait and see, but more defo.
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Aer Arran to Liege from Luton, Birminhgam & Lorient could be on the cards as posted on another thread.
A low-cost airline will base two aircraft in Bierset as from April 2006, according to the management of Liège-Airport. The Irish operator Aer Arann will propose three new routes, to London Luton and Birmingham in the United Kingdom (two daily flights to both destinations), and to Lorient in France.
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Hi Buster
You may jest about Catairs Connies. But I have some photographs taken by yours truly of no less than two Catair Connies parked side by side at your favourite airport!!
Send me a pm and I will happily oblige with a copy or two if interested.
You may jest about Catairs Connies. But I have some photographs taken by yours truly of no less than two Catair Connies parked side by side at your favourite airport!!
Send me a pm and I will happily oblige with a copy or two if interested.
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With obscure routes such as Klagenfurt, Reims, Lorient and Liege, the airlines and the airport will need to mount a huge public awareness campaign.
If folk are unaware of these new routes, then how can they book them especially as the airlines concerned are not household names?
I also think that the new routes announced recently by Wizz need niche marketing within the UK? I did however, notice someone on an auction web site marketing their apartment utilising the new Luton to Bourgas scheduled route, and only a few hours after flights were available for sale on the Wizz web site!
I hate to see failure due to poor marketing, whether that be from the airline or an airport.
If folk are unaware of these new routes, then how can they book them especially as the airlines concerned are not household names?
I also think that the new routes announced recently by Wizz need niche marketing within the UK? I did however, notice someone on an auction web site marketing their apartment utilising the new Luton to Bourgas scheduled route, and only a few hours after flights were available for sale on the Wizz web site!
I hate to see failure due to poor marketing, whether that be from the airline or an airport.
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Assuming that LGS6753's figures are correct (and I don't doubt them!), around one third of LTN's scheduled services follow initial routeings out of Luton via Brookmans Park.
If the same holds good as a proportion of charter and corporate flights, frankly this is going to result in a total saturation of adjacent airspace capacity during peak times particularly as London City, Northolt, Stansted and from next year even Southend, all have similar claims to this piece of sky.
Given that the expected incorporation of the EU 'Accession states' into an enlarged EU was planned over five years ago, and it was inevitable that airlines both here and abroad would immediately tap into this vast market, what on earth was going on within the Future Airspace Reorganisation & Trialing Section???
Rearrange the words "took", "they", "balls", "their", "off" and "eyes" to find the answer...
If the same holds good as a proportion of charter and corporate flights, frankly this is going to result in a total saturation of adjacent airspace capacity during peak times particularly as London City, Northolt, Stansted and from next year even Southend, all have similar claims to this piece of sky.
Given that the expected incorporation of the EU 'Accession states' into an enlarged EU was planned over five years ago, and it was inevitable that airlines both here and abroad would immediately tap into this vast market, what on earth was going on within the Future Airspace Reorganisation & Trialing Section???
Rearrange the words "took", "they", "balls", "their", "off" and "eyes" to find the answer...
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another fine mess
Site clearance work was meant to start this Monday for the duelling of the A505 into the airport. This work has been delayed yet again as the council is still waiting for funding confirmation from the Government. If the announcement isn’t made soon, the main work, which is due to start in June will be delayed again, as trees and foliage can’t be cut down during the nesting season. An additional problem is that to receive government funding the work has to be completed by 2008 even though it is the government that is holding the work up. If the council can’t complete the work by 2008 then they can’t start the work and will have to start again and apply for a different pot of government money. The construction project once started will take, yes you have guest it, 2 years to complete.
The price of the work is £21 million, which is just a fraction of the £500 million that has been promised for Afghanistan this week.
The price of the work is £21 million, which is just a fraction of the £500 million that has been promised for Afghanistan this week.
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As Wizz seem to be heading East, the next stop could be Kabul. Comforting then to know that some of the British money might be helping upgrade the local road infrastructure in Afghanistan?
Why not give Luton airport a Bury Park post code, then the road upgrades would be a formality?
Walking to the football ground, I might as well be in Kabul!
Why not give Luton airport a Bury Park post code, then the road upgrades would be a formality?
Walking to the football ground, I might as well be in Kabul!
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If my memory serves me correctly, wasn't goverment funding approved back in late 2001, early 2002 for the dualling of the A505 from the M1 directly into the airport. Work never started, not sure why, and funding was later withdrawn.
The East England Development Agency has now submitted it's recommendations to the goverment for various road building scheme in the eastern counties( I believe there are 5 or 6 for Bedfordshire alone) which includes again, the dualling of the A505 into the airport. I think the local rag was reporting that the goverment is expected to announce by 31 March which schemes have won funding, and if successful, dualling of the A505 could start by 15 June 06. We shall just have to wait and see but personally, I am not overly optimistic.
The East England Development Agency has now submitted it's recommendations to the goverment for various road building scheme in the eastern counties( I believe there are 5 or 6 for Bedfordshire alone) which includes again, the dualling of the A505 into the airport. I think the local rag was reporting that the goverment is expected to announce by 31 March which schemes have won funding, and if successful, dualling of the A505 could start by 15 June 06. We shall just have to wait and see but personally, I am not overly optimistic.
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The decision was meant to have been made late last year but was put off until January except it is now February. Funding had already been approved once then the decision was withdrawn. On the 18th of January I received the following email from the ELC team.
"We are getting ready to start advanced site clearance works in early February along the corridor. The full funding approval has not yet been given but we are anticipating that this will be forth coming at the end of this month, if not, then we will not proceed with the clearance works.
The anticipated start date for the main works is June 2006 and the works will be completed by March 2008 (sooner if possible)."
Then on the 31st they wrote
"Still waiting for the announcement, should be any day (hopefully). Advanced site clearance should start next Monday if the funding is approved."
and yesterday they wrote back
"No news as yet. We are still awaiting the announcement."
"We are getting ready to start advanced site clearance works in early February along the corridor. The full funding approval has not yet been given but we are anticipating that this will be forth coming at the end of this month, if not, then we will not proceed with the clearance works.
The anticipated start date for the main works is June 2006 and the works will be completed by March 2008 (sooner if possible)."
Then on the 31st they wrote
"Still waiting for the announcement, should be any day (hopefully). Advanced site clearance should start next Monday if the funding is approved."
and yesterday they wrote back
"No news as yet. We are still awaiting the announcement."
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Thanks LTNMan. That say it all really doesn't it!!!!. You obviously have the most up to date info about the project and it would seem the ELC are awaiting news of the funding on day by day basis.