LUTON -8

[robbie1973]

Originally Posted by AvGeek1

Does anyone know if easyJet are set to announce any more new routes from Luton? They have only announced new Jersey flights so I was a bit curious. If they were going to announce any new routes, could anyone take a guess at what they might be?

We could speculate on new routes until we are blue in the face but I would like to see EasyJet routes to the Canary Islands from Luton, this is a market currently underserved and I personally believe they could do well but they haven't shown any interest up to now !

[LTNman]

Really don't know why the view of many here is their wish to just keep on piling more flights into an already full airport. All it will do is make an already miserable experience for many worse. Better to wait until 2017 when passengers might want to come back rather than now when many vow never to return.

[AvGeek1]

I agree with you that the Canary Islands is undeserved and that easyJet could compete with flights to Tenerfie and Lanzarote in the future

I will be visiting Luton at the end of August, so does anyone know where they will be up to with any of the work and will anything be finished or near completion.

Another question that I have is that do you think that easyJet will close their Stansted base in the future and move some flights like Bilbao & Asturias to Luton and then operated important sectors like Amsterdam and Edinburgh from these bases. I have always thought that they would as they have started Luton-Munich & Luton-Copenhagen and either ended the route from Stansted or reduce frequency.

If this happen Luton could receive a nice handful of new routes from easyJet in the future.

[AvGeek1]

Don't take it personally, it was just a question to see if they would announce any more routes as I was curious, I know for a fact that Luton is chaos at the moment with loads of building work and more passengers. But that hasn't stopped them announcing plenty of routes in 2016.

[runway08]

LTNman if they vow never to return why is it always "Full". Lets face it the majority of people only care about how much they are paying. Surely you will get the odd few who expect luxury from the budget prices they pay but where are they going to go. STN is no different. We are mostly cattle floating around on the cheap. The reality is LTN will be busy and keep growing regardless. Location, Location, Location! The more flights the better as far as I am concerned. More places to visit, I don't care for the hour or so I spend in the airport. It is nothing time in the grand scheme of a trip.

Italy & Scandinavia need more flights.

[AvGeek1]

Originally Posted by runway08

LTNman if they vow never to return why is it always "Full". Lets face it the majority of people only care about how much they are paying. Surely you will get the odd few who expect luxury from the budget prices they pay but where are they going to go. STN is no different. We are mostly cattle floating around on the cheap. The reality is LTN will be busy and keep growing regardless. Location, Location, Location! The more flights the better as far as I am concerned. More places to visit, I don't care for the hour or so I spend in the airport. It is nothing time in the grand scheme of a trip.

Italy & Scandinavia need more flights.

I completely agree with you runway08, I don't think the management care either they just want the business! It is too risky to turn down airlines because they will just go elsewhere and Luton will lose out. I also agree that both Italy & Scandanavia are both still underserved but Luton did make some progress with this in 2015 with new flights to Copenhagen, Rome & Naples.

[wallp]

Progress has been made with Italy and Scandinavia but there's plenty of room for growth.

Italy - how about Florence, Verona, Bologna, Genoa, Rimini, Cagliari and Palermo

Scandinavia - how about Stockholm, Oslo, Gothenburg

Other places with potential - Helsinki, Talinn, Canary Islands (as mentioned earlier in this thread), Athens, Rhodes, Dubrovnik all spring to mind

[gilesdavies]

I was thinking that if Qatar operated the A321LR in the future could Luton sustain a flight to Doha connecting to key markets like Pakistan, Dubai, Australia and many others.

Qatar Airways could easily operate their new fleet of 787-8's from the airport, I however doubt this will happen anytime soon...

The airline has only recently started a 7th daily rotation out of Heathrow, these are operated with a mix of A380's, 777-300's, A330 and 787. To increase capacity for the moment, they can easily replace the A330's and 787's with larger aircraft.

Also Birmingham to Doha by Qatar Airways goes online in a few months, with a daily 787 service, so opening up Luton would encroach on this market as well as Heathrow.

Also before they secured so many slots at Heathrow, they always used Gatwick as an overflow for peak time travel periods, to add capacity. So if they were to expand at another London airport, I would LGW would be the preferred option.

[AvGeek1]

Maybe FlyDubai could be another option to fly Dubai-Luton, with the use of their 737-8 MAX equipment in the future. Maybe a code-share with Emirates to allow passengers to connect to key markets?

Also what are your thoughts about the easyJet headquarters. With the airport getting an overhaul, I have also thought that this building was a bit of an eye sore. Could easyJet revamp the exterior the make it look more of a professional and modern head office? Maybe the front of the building could be revamp, still keeping the hangers intact.

Another question I have is I don't really know what the brown bricked building is to the left of the terminal building? I know it is currently being used partially for the temporary arrivals hall, but in the future what would it be used for and if not occupied could it be used to expand the terminal even more?

[wallp]

Isn't there talk of easyJet potentially moving off site?

[LTNman]

Easyjet have outgrown easy land and have run out of office space are rumoured to be looking for a new home. One of the many issues is that they are having to run a fleet of buses between their two buildings and their car park which is now off site.

Might be the case that even the hangar might go in the medium to long term.

[toledoashley]

Originally Posted by LTNman

Easyjet have outgrown easy land and have run out of office space are rumoured to be looking for a new home. One of the many issues is that they are having to run a fleet of buses between their two buildings and their car park which is now off site.

Might be the case that even the hangar might go in the medium to long term.

I heard Wigmore House or Gatwick were options, but that was a while ago.

[LTNman]

They were looking for somewhere close to the airport as far as I know.

[AvGeek1]

If easyJet were to move offsite and the hangers were to also go, this could provide Luton with more space to play with and either create more aircraft stands which is definately needed, more parking or anything else they could use the space for.

Also wouldn't it make sense to move the head office from Luton to Gatwick with the majority of their operations being out of Gatwick?

[boeing_eng]

The long-term future of H89 will be down to the airport as its leased to EZY.

Not enough room currently in Wigmore House

[pabely]

Easyjet HQ

This is old news, they have been looking at alternatives for over a year,
If anything they need more hangers, subleasing space at Monarch Engineering and having to send aircraft to Eastern Europe for checks. Why would they move HO to LGW, cost would higher, relocation of employees etc.
Just because it is a bigger base does not mean you need HO near it!

[Boeing737-8]

Didn't easyjet sponsor Luton town 10 million pound site which will be new offices and restaurants. Could this be a possible new site for the future of their offices.

[Falcon666]

If I remember correctly a while back Thomson were looking at the possibility of building a Hangar capable of having three 787s side by side down by the run up bay parallel to to the taxiway.
I wonder if Easy would be interested at that option with maybe offices on the land behind on the long term car park
If Luton is still in an Enterprise zone which I think it is funding could be available!
Loads of possibilities me thinks.

[AvGeek1]

Originally Posted by Falcon666

If I remember correctly a while back Thomson were looking at the possibility of building a Hangar capable of having three 787s side by side down by the run up bay parallel to to the taxiway.
I wonder if Easy would be interested at that option with maybe offices on the land behind on the long term car park
If Luton is still in an Enterprise zone which I think it is funding could be available!
Loads of possibilities me thinks.

I think that's quite a good idea actually as there is plenty of land around that area. I think for an airport of Luton's size they have quite a few airlines based in Luton that all need extra hangar space

[LTNman]

I am sure we have already talked about this a few weeks ago. Ideal location for easyjet would be the old Vauxhall site where they could have a purpose built building built in spitting distance of Parkway. Wouldn't be surprised if they are not already in negotiations as this would be a prestige company for the site.



http://www.napierpark.com/

The hangar site could create one extra stand with direct access onto taxiway Alpha and would be a great location for a purpose built baggage reclaim hall and /or a light rail station. Even when finished the existing expanded baggage reclaim hall will still be an odd random shape containing random shaped belts. Bit of a trek though from pier B but not much further.