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Last of easyJet's 737 flights, both are now destined for the Cotswold Executioner!
Bear's hear much, Wizz are very much in demand, both deep into more central and southern Europe and at 'home'. Crawley International and the elephant in Essex would love em!
As for 'festivities', I am off to buy a huge red pen and a GIANT notepad for the Olympics traffic. Well I would, if I was a 'soptter'! Cannot bring myself to even spell it correctly, even though the 'real' Buster says that I am!
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Monarch - New Route to Rome
Yep, its been confirmed...
Monarch | 2011 News - Flights - Monarch embarks on its
No news on frequency or which airport in Rome. When it goes on sale tomorrow, should have a better idea.
Shame the airport missed out on the other routes. As they are launching four or five new routes from their other bases.
Manchester to Dubrovnik, Milan, Venice and Verona
Birmingham to Dubrovnik, Heraklion, Milan, Rome and Venice
London Gatwick to Dubrovnik, Heraklion, Milan and Venice
Venice and a higher frequency and longer summer season schedule to Dubrovnik would have been welcomed! Hope Wizzair delivers on this next year.
Monarch | 2011 News - Flights - Monarch embarks on its
No news on frequency or which airport in Rome. When it goes on sale tomorrow, should have a better idea.
Shame the airport missed out on the other routes. As they are launching four or five new routes from their other bases.
Manchester to Dubrovnik, Milan, Venice and Verona
Birmingham to Dubrovnik, Heraklion, Milan, Rome and Venice
London Gatwick to Dubrovnik, Heraklion, Milan and Venice
Venice and a higher frequency and longer summer season schedule to Dubrovnik would have been welcomed! Hope Wizzair delivers on this next year.
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Good news about Rome.3x weekly from March 28th.
At last a NEW ROUTE to add-ok it was served many years ago from Luton.
Was it more than coincidence that Easy announced Heraklion recently-Monarch were unlikely to go head to head with them on the Milan route but as Giles says am surprised about Venice not being added.
Guess the A320 now being lost was the one added this summer at the last minute with all the additional GIB flights.Suspect they may be the ones to see the cut.
Cant wait to see what W6 have planned for next year.
More concrete please
At last a NEW ROUTE to add-ok it was served many years ago from Luton.
Was it more than coincidence that Easy announced Heraklion recently-Monarch were unlikely to go head to head with them on the Milan route but as Giles says am surprised about Venice not being added.
Guess the A320 now being lost was the one added this summer at the last minute with all the additional GIB flights.Suspect they may be the ones to see the cut.
Cant wait to see what W6 have planned for next year.
More concrete please
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As I have reported on the Monarch thread the 2012 Monarch schedules are showing as an example on Saturday mornings in June and July a total of five aircraft will be needed. This year Gib saw two flights daily but on some days it has been cut back to one daily next year.
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Shame to see the airport loosing one of Monarch's A320's... I would suspect this aircraft and the two additional A320's being added to the fleet from next summer, will see these aircraft going to Birmingham, Manchester and Gatwick...
What's Luton's loss is their gain!
Even if the Gibraltar flights are reduced next summer, this is only a 6-7 hour blocked sector for one of the aircraft in a single day and would have been covering other routes. So I would expect we'll be seeing a number of the airlines routes frequency from Luton, being cut too...
Anyone know what charters Monarch will be operating next year?
I think this year it was only a weekly flight Zakynthos and Paphos, so there is not much in the way charter can be cut by the airline, by dropping this aircraft. At the same time as cutting aircraft, they also have to make room in the schedule for the Rome flights!
WIth the easyJet announcing they will be flying to Corfu next year, I wonder if we will see this route quietly disappear?
Over the last few years, while LTN's list of destinations has grown rapidly, it seems to have been done with very little growth... (Exception been Wizz!) It seems the new destinations have come at the expense of exisiting destinations having their frequencies cut. This is very apparent if you was to look at easyJet's timetables from the early 2000's, where there now long established routes flew maybe like 6-7 times daily (GLA, EDI, BFS, AMS and CDG) and now 3-4 times daily and destinations in Spain flown 4 times daily are now maybe 1-2 times daily.
Ryanair is the same, when they based the four aircraft at the airport about 6-7 years ago, they only flew to 11-12 destinations, but had at least daily frequencies on all routes. Now they fly to 21 destinations with the same number of aircraft! Very few of either airlines routes are flown by aircraft from other bases.
Its strange how LTN gains destinations and looses frequencies, while airports like LGW gain frequencies and destinations.
What's Luton's loss is their gain!
Even if the Gibraltar flights are reduced next summer, this is only a 6-7 hour blocked sector for one of the aircraft in a single day and would have been covering other routes. So I would expect we'll be seeing a number of the airlines routes frequency from Luton, being cut too...
Anyone know what charters Monarch will be operating next year?
I think this year it was only a weekly flight Zakynthos and Paphos, so there is not much in the way charter can be cut by the airline, by dropping this aircraft. At the same time as cutting aircraft, they also have to make room in the schedule for the Rome flights!
WIth the easyJet announcing they will be flying to Corfu next year, I wonder if we will see this route quietly disappear?
Over the last few years, while LTN's list of destinations has grown rapidly, it seems to have been done with very little growth... (Exception been Wizz!) It seems the new destinations have come at the expense of exisiting destinations having their frequencies cut. This is very apparent if you was to look at easyJet's timetables from the early 2000's, where there now long established routes flew maybe like 6-7 times daily (GLA, EDI, BFS, AMS and CDG) and now 3-4 times daily and destinations in Spain flown 4 times daily are now maybe 1-2 times daily.
Ryanair is the same, when they based the four aircraft at the airport about 6-7 years ago, they only flew to 11-12 destinations, but had at least daily frequencies on all routes. Now they fly to 21 destinations with the same number of aircraft! Very few of either airlines routes are flown by aircraft from other bases.
Its strange how LTN gains destinations and looses frequencies, while airports like LGW gain frequencies and destinations.
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Its strange how LTN gains destinations and looses frequencies, while airports like LGW gain frequencies and destinations.
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Wonder why the word Faceb00k is a banned word on PPrune
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Airport Plans for 2012
So has anyone seen the new two lane plans submitted to LBC through the existing underpass? Will it have another revised set-down system or is it a bigger funnel into the existing area?
Apologies for the lack of background experience, but there seems to be an unending change of plans for traffic management on the road approaching Luton airport. Whenever a new plan is implemented, somehow is always seems to be more disastrous than the previous one (or at least that's the impression I get from reading people's reactions !)
Is anyone (Buster perhaps ?) able to explain what the core issues are behind this, and what they think it would take to get it resolved once and for all ?
Is anyone (Buster perhaps ?) able to explain what the core issues are behind this, and what they think it would take to get it resolved once and for all ?
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So has anyone seen the new two lane plans submitted to LBC through the existing underpass? Will it have another revised set-down system or is it a bigger funnel into the existing area?
Is anyone (Buster perhaps ?) able to explain what the core issues are behind this, and what they think it would take to get it resolved once and for all
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The bridge carrying taxiway Alpha was was meant to have been by the Holiday Inn but ATC objected. This made the central area smaller than it could have been.
Without a lot of other work (re-alignment of twy B, demolition and re-location of the Fire Station and Switch House One with all the associated airfield lighting cabling for a start) it would never have worked particularly in Cat II/III. It would also have made precious little difference to the capacity in the central area.
Do bear in mind the vision with all this was to build the terminal building down the hill next to the railway station (and all the car parking) and to have a people-mover (why there is a second bore under the twy) up to what should have been just the departure lounge. Someone ought to go with the vision.
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Vintage is 100% correct, the 'vision' was cost engineered into the tinminal and Parkway that exists today. A terminal was to be built at the Parkway, only it didn't happen and the development was done piecemeal in an era when public transport was out of favour.
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The whole planning and subsequent end result of parkway became a farce.A friend of mine(now retired) was involved at a senior level with the development and put simply the original plans could now be built but back then the 'Safety Zone" at the end of R08 prevented parkway from having Check in Areas.
This "Safety Zone" changed almost immediately after parkway opened,much to the frustration of all involved
I am led to believe that back then a Cable Car system (continous loop) was the prefered method of transprting passengers to the terminal and not a monorail.
The original plans must still be in the vaults at the council..
Maybe Vintage ATCO can confirm if this is correct?
This "Safety Zone" changed almost immediately after parkway opened,much to the frustration of all involved
I am led to believe that back then a Cable Car system (continous loop) was the prefered method of transprting passengers to the terminal and not a monorail.
The original plans must still be in the vaults at the council..
Maybe Vintage ATCO can confirm if this is correct?
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Sort of. Public Safety Zones use to be a short dumpy triangle with its apex at the runway threshold and the base of the triangle not that far from the threshold. I cannot remember the precise dimensions, age and red wine has taken its toll. This is why the current Parkway rail station has its face at the angle it does, it butted up right up to the edge of the PSZ. Car parking was not restricted in the PSZ which is why the car park at Parkway is where it is.
Some time later, and again I cannot remember the timescales, PSZ's were changed to be a much longer and thinner triangle but t'other way round, the base was at the runway threshold and the apex out on the approach, somewhere near J10 I seem to think.
This doesn't mean it would not have been possible to build a terminal 'down the hill' but at the time (early/mid 90s) the airport simply didn't have the money. It's nothing to do with the Council as at the time the airport had been leased out.
Not to say, given the will and the money, it still couldn't be done.
Some time later, and again I cannot remember the timescales, PSZ's were changed to be a much longer and thinner triangle but t'other way round, the base was at the runway threshold and the apex out on the approach, somewhere near J10 I seem to think.
This doesn't mean it would not have been possible to build a terminal 'down the hill' but at the time (early/mid 90s) the airport simply didn't have the money. It's nothing to do with the Council as at the time the airport had been leased out.
Not to say, given the will and the money, it still couldn't be done.