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Percival Way looks like its finally going to have some much needed repairs carried out overnight on the 22nd:
Percival Way partial closure overnight 22nd December 2015 - London Luton Airport
Percival Way partial closure overnight 22nd December 2015 - London Luton Airport
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From the 27th of March AtlasGlobal will move their flight a little bit later.
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It would be good to see them add more frequency to this route and maybe try other routes in Turkey. This is another country with not many flights to Luton and Luton could have many more.
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It would be good to see them add more frequency to this route and maybe try other routes in Turkey. This is another country with not many flights to Luton and Luton could have many more.
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Looking at the CAA stats for November a total of 58,845 yes 58,845 passengers flew the route. Gatwick had a drop of 64 per cent from 66,000 to 24,000 compared to 12 months ago. This must be Luton´s most popular route at the present time. I imagine it must be hurting Norwegian.
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Looking at the CAA stats for November a total of 58,845 yes 58,845 passengers flew the route. Gatwick had a drop of 64 per cent from 66,000 to 24,000 compared to 12 months ago. This must be Luton´s most popular route at the present time. I imagine it must be hurting Norwegian.
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Calm down people, let's get Transavia and Vueling routes through the door and flying, then see how they perform, before we start talking about them creating bases here and further routes from LTN!
I love it how we have two bits of good news, and everyone's mind goes into overdrive, who will be the next new carrier and what exotic routes will they offer?!
But it has been an awesome coup for the airport in recent weeks. They need congratulating on the hard work behind the scenes, they must have done to secure these carriers.
It isn't a major concern, but I do hope new carriers flying duplicate routes to other established airlines based at the airport, doesn't cause issues further down the line. For example them reducing capacity on a route or moving capacity away from the airport.
We have seen this with a few East European routes that easyJet use to fly and threw the towel in, like Budapest, Prague, Warsaw and Krakow.
I love it how we have two bits of good news, and everyone's mind goes into overdrive, who will be the next new carrier and what exotic routes will they offer?!
But it has been an awesome coup for the airport in recent weeks. They need congratulating on the hard work behind the scenes, they must have done to secure these carriers.
It isn't a major concern, but I do hope new carriers flying duplicate routes to other established airlines based at the airport, doesn't cause issues further down the line. For example them reducing capacity on a route or moving capacity away from the airport.
We have seen this with a few East European routes that easyJet use to fly and threw the towel in, like Budapest, Prague, Warsaw and Krakow.
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I do hope new carriers flying duplicate routes to other established airlines based at the airport, doesn't cause issues further down the line
) - you could look at it the other way though and say that easyjet have left themselves open to competition by not building sufficient frequency on their key Luton routes.Just to give one example (there are many more) - their foray into Munich has been woeful with not even a daily service and clearly aimed at the UK originating leisure sector rather than business or german originating travellers.
However I think Monarch is still viewed as vulnerable by some of the more predatory carriers out there.
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Rumours of more routes from Vueling by the summer! 
Possibilities could include their following bases? Rome, A Coruña, Alicante, Bilbao, Brussels, Florence, Madrid, Málaga, Palma , Paris-Orly, Santiago , Seville, Valencia & Ibiza.
Possibilities could include their following bases? Rome, A Coruña, Alicante, Bilbao, Brussels, Florence, Madrid, Málaga, Palma , Paris-Orly, Santiago , Seville, Valencia & Ibiza.
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But it has been an awesome coup for the airport in recent weeks. They need congratulating on the hard work behind the scenes, they must have done to secure these carriers.
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If it is runway capacity, the airport really needs to pull its finger out, and get the parallel taxiway's underway! As I am sure I read, this was one of the last phases of the airport expansion scheme, and not due to be completed until late 2018.
Out of curiousity what will the runways hourly capacity be after the full taxiways are in place, compared to now?!
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Are these last two slots that have just been taken up, due to runway or apron capacity at the airport?
If it is runway capacity, the airport really needs to pull its finger out, and get the parallel taxiway's underway! As I am sure I read, this was one of the last phases of the airport expansion scheme, and not due to be completed until late 2018.
The taxiway extension on 08 is now part of phase one which is why the mid term car park extension is being finished off now as part of that car park needs to be closed off for the new taxiway. I am guessing that work will start this summer on the taxiway when it is a bit more dryer but that is just a guess on my part.
With two entry points onto 08 it will give ATC more flexibility in getting aircraft onto the runway. As for 26 it is indeed a later phase and I think it is the 3rd phase as well.
Out of curiousity what will the runways hourly capacity be after the full taxiways are in place, compared to now?!
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I don't think it matters that departures are from the intersection. Runway capacity planning will take in to account a backtrack, but when that is no longer necessary, theoretical capacity will increase, and that's what determines slots..
I don't think it matters that departures are from the intersection. Runway capacity planning will take in to account a backtrack, but when that is no longer necessary, theoretical capacity will increase, and that's what determines slots..
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Found the following statement from LLA about future runway capacity from the master plan document.
This webpage will download the PDF https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rc...RWgkmw&cad=rja
The additional capacity will allow better use to
be made of the runway. The proposed new and extended
taxiways will facilitate easier access to and egress from
the runway. This plan increases the peak movement rate
to 40 compared to 34 in summer 2011.
be made of the runway. The proposed new and extended
taxiways will facilitate easier access to and egress from
the runway. This plan increases the peak movement rate
to 40 compared to 34 in summer 2011.
This webpage will download the PDF https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rc...RWgkmw&cad=rja
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Runway capacity
This doc shows a different story http://www.acl-uk.org/UserFiles/File...ec%20S2016.pdf An increase up to 40 per hour will be a big increase, but they have to park somewhere. The 07:00 figure is only 28, is this why this is full in S16, four less than 06:00 hour?
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I read a PDF about an hour ago that stated the theoretical limit of 34 moments can't be sustained so some slack needs to be built into the following hour to help stop delays building up.
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Pabely - in the document you link to the movement rate in the 0700 hour local (0600 hour GMT) is 34 not 28.
LTMman - your statement about sustained runway capacity of 34 is answered in the document link in Pabley's link - it is only 34 for a single hour and seems to be 31 most of the rest of the time.
LTMman - your statement about sustained runway capacity of 34 is answered in the document link in Pabley's link - it is only 34 for a single hour and seems to be 31 most of the rest of the time.