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Resurface the road during one of the busiest weeks of the year, albeit that the airport does not have any passengers accessing or departing during those hours! Even the Highways Agency attempt to minismise roadworks during the summer holidays! Whoever arranged or approved it obviously does not have the travelling public as a top priority!
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Also noted that the company being used to try and sort out the vehicular access to the CTA uses the VISSIM software which is the industry standard for complex traffic situations.
Resurface the road during one of the busiest weeks of the year, albeit that the airport does not have any passengers accessing or departing during those hours!
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The new airside pub. Got to say it looks very good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOQu6GLowsg
The kitchen was given a trial run with airport workers getting a free lunch who can be seen in the background. The pub also serves 28 different beers
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AewteBuXwFg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOQu6GLowsg
The kitchen was given a trial run with airport workers getting a free lunch who can be seen in the background. The pub also serves 28 different beers
.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AewteBuXwFg
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Interesting stat from the airport. St Albans District residents are the most frequent users in Hertfordshire with 452,667 passengers passing through Luton in 2016. This is the equivalent of every local resident flying from Luton 3 times.
So guess which town's residents complain about aircraft noise the most??
A case of we want to fly from Luton but want the aircraft to fly over someones else's house.
So guess which town's residents complain about aircraft noise the most??
A case of we want to fly from Luton but want the aircraft to fly over someones else's house.
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Luton has around 230,000 residents
Interesting stat from the airport. St Albans District residents are the most frequent users in Hertfordshire with 452,667 passengers passing through Luton in 2016. This is the equivalent of every local resident flying from Luton 3 times.
So guess which town's residents complain about aircraft noise the most??
A case of we want to fly from Luton but want the aircraft to fly over someones else's house.
So guess which town's residents complain about aircraft noise the most??
A case of we want to fly from Luton but want the aircraft to fly over someones else's house.
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Interesting stat from the airport. St Albans District residents are the most frequent users in Hertfordshire with 452,667 passengers passing through Luton in 2016. This is the equivalent of every local resident flying from Luton 3 times.
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The new airside pub. Got to say it looks very good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOQu6GLowsg
The kitchen was given a trial run with airport workers getting a free lunch who can be seen in the background. The pub also serves 28 different beers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AewteBuXwFg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOQu6GLowsg
The kitchen was given a trial run with airport workers getting a free lunch who can be seen in the background. The pub also serves 28 different beers
.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AewteBuXwFg
But I suspect you will be paying restaurant prices for pub grub!
Also add to the mix, overcrowding, stag weekend passengers and luggage to trip over, and the experience will be nothing like what is shown!
Aren't I a cynical sh*te tonight?!
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Pub price list can be found at the bottom of this page The Smithfield - London Luton Airport
£5.90 for a 500ml bottled beer or £5.10 for a coke sized 330ml bottle of craft beer. The food menu is the sort of prices I find in pubs on the Norfork coast.
£5.90 for a 500ml bottled beer or £5.10 for a coke sized 330ml bottle of craft beer. The food menu is the sort of prices I find in pubs on the Norfork coast.
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Parking is another area that is straining under 15.5 million passengers that was meant to be good for 18 million passengers.
I have noticed twice this week that the short term car park has had to be closed due to a lack of parking spaces and that is despite many cars parked where they are not meant to park. Approximately 570 spaces will be lost from the existing short stay car park to accommodate the proposed temporary drop off zone and MPT construction compound at the east of the site later this year. This is just a shade over a 50 % reduction. Interesting times ahead for next year when the car park can't cope with this year.
At some point all of the car park will have to be closed as the open half will become a construction site for the second CTA multistory which will happen maybe around the year 2020 or 2021 after the rail link opens.
The existing multistory is also looking rather full these days apart from rows of disabled parking bays that remain empty. The top two floors are used for priority parking which has overflowed to a compound opposite the Ibis hotel. Nice sturdy 10ft fence on one side and completely open on the other that backs onto Airport Way. All of the airport car parks are meant to be Car Mark Safety certified but maybe that doesn't count as a car park.
Later this year or early next year a further 780 spaces will be permanently lost and 290 spaces temporarily lost in the mid term car park due to the route for the rail link passing through the middle of the car park. 1040 paces will be created by a multistory that will be built in that car park but that won't compensate for the lost spaces in the short term.
I have noticed twice this week that the short term car park has had to be closed due to a lack of parking spaces and that is despite many cars parked where they are not meant to park. Approximately 570 spaces will be lost from the existing short stay car park to accommodate the proposed temporary drop off zone and MPT construction compound at the east of the site later this year. This is just a shade over a 50 % reduction. Interesting times ahead for next year when the car park can't cope with this year.
At some point all of the car park will have to be closed as the open half will become a construction site for the second CTA multistory which will happen maybe around the year 2020 or 2021 after the rail link opens.
The existing multistory is also looking rather full these days apart from rows of disabled parking bays that remain empty. The top two floors are used for priority parking which has overflowed to a compound opposite the Ibis hotel. Nice sturdy 10ft fence on one side and completely open on the other that backs onto Airport Way. All of the airport car parks are meant to be Car Mark Safety certified but maybe that doesn't count as a car park.
Later this year or early next year a further 780 spaces will be permanently lost and 290 spaces temporarily lost in the mid term car park due to the route for the rail link passing through the middle of the car park. 1040 paces will be created by a multistory that will be built in that car park but that won't compensate for the lost spaces in the short term.
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19 months after taking control of the former bus station the builder has installed the last part of the terminal extension framework. The terminal extension was meant to have opened last month. Sometime this year I expect the terminal canopy to be installed.
I believe the brick balcony of the old terminal will be eventually hidden but we will have to wait and see.
How it was 20th July 2014
In the foreground is the site of the temporary drop off zone that is due to open next March and in the background is the location of the builders compound for the DART. 570 short term spaces will be lost. This time next year I wonder where these cars will be parking?
I believe the brick balcony of the old terminal will be eventually hidden but we will have to wait and see.
How it was 20th July 2014
In the foreground is the site of the temporary drop off zone that is due to open next March and in the background is the location of the builders compound for the DART. 570 short term spaces will be lost. This time next year I wonder where these cars will be parking?
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LTN's busiest weekend?
I have just read an interesting article based on today, tommorow and Sunday being Luton's busiest weekend at the airport.
Spokesperson Neil Bradford is advising travellers to leiave plenty of time to get to the airport and clear security before your flight: "We would like to thank passengers for their patience and understanding as the transformation continues.
This will be the busiest summer we have ever had - and this weekend alone we are expecting 85,000 people to jet off, with today being the busiest".
It states and I quote: "Nearly 30,000 passengers are due to use the airport on the Bedfordshire/Hertfordshire border today. The figure's likely to be around 26,200 on Saturday and 28,800 on Sunday."
If the figures above represent the busiest three days of the year then surely Luton can only be handling 365 days x 30,000 (max) being it's busiest =10,950,000 passengers this year!
Someone needs to advise Luton Airport Management/Spokespersons what is 'actually' going on and how the airport has moved on over the last few years..!
Spokesperson Neil Bradford is advising travellers to leiave plenty of time to get to the airport and clear security before your flight: "We would like to thank passengers for their patience and understanding as the transformation continues.
This will be the busiest summer we have ever had - and this weekend alone we are expecting 85,000 people to jet off, with today being the busiest".
It states and I quote: "Nearly 30,000 passengers are due to use the airport on the Bedfordshire/Hertfordshire border today. The figure's likely to be around 26,200 on Saturday and 28,800 on Sunday."
If the figures above represent the busiest three days of the year then surely Luton can only be handling 365 days x 30,000 (max) being it's busiest =10,950,000 passengers this year!
Someone needs to advise Luton Airport Management/Spokespersons what is 'actually' going on and how the airport has moved on over the last few years..!
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Lee Baker Street....Let me help you with that....I think jetting off is the key phrase...so the figures you are mangling are just the outbound numbers only....so no worries.... & a bit more context...STN quoted as 136000 this weekend,again with media luvy phrases such as jetting off!!!...
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Stansted is the largest single terminal airport in the UK and Luton is the second.
Yes I can confirm Luton was heaving today but then I think that ever day now.
Remember this view as it is new to this year and will be gone for next year when work starts on the station.
Yes I can confirm Luton was heaving today but then I think that ever day now.
Remember this view as it is new to this year and will be gone for next year when work starts on the station.
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Busiest day at Luton
Lee Baker Street....Let me help you with that....I think jetting off is the key phrase...so the figures you are mangling are just the outbound numbers only....so no worries.... & a bit more context...STN quoted as 136000 this weekend,again with media luvy phrases such as jetting off!!!...
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Noticed Easy have been having quite a few canx flights in the last couple of weeks.
another three tonight -two crew welfares and a refuelling delay so out of hours-not sure if the refuelling delay was at luton though.
another three tonight -two crew welfares and a refuelling delay so out of hours-not sure if the refuelling delay was at luton though.
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Not just LTN, LGW and STN also. At least the odd cancellation eases pressure very slightly, but it seems to be EZY doing it more than anyone else.
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Remarkable that the council didn't figure out that Airport Way is at its busiest during the next 6 weeks.
It was this weekend last year that the airport closed its 4 lane drop off zone with the barriers at the end of each lane and replaced them with a very short single lane due to work in progress. The queues on the first day set records at Luton as they reached the M1 spur for the first time on a non snow day. The locals were up in arms as the local roads also ground to a halt.
On the Monday the airport management, who were in a state of shock at what had happened, held an emergency meeting and introduced measures including mobile electric road signs directing traffic to free drop offs at the medium and long term car parks. The measures including others brought in had some effect but the school holiday period last year was a disaster.
This year it is better but with queues still reaching the A1081 during the morning peak let's just say the CTA capacity has not lived up to expectations and would have been modified this winter even if the new rail link wasn't going in.
UPDATE: The proposed wordworks have since been postponed.
Portfolio Holder for highways Cllr Paul Castleman said: "Following a review of the road improvement programme currently taking place in Luton we are keen to avoid the possibility of any avoidable further pressures being brought to bear on the road network at what is a peak time for the airport and holidaymakers."
Read more at Luton council postpones Aiport Way roadworks - so as not to clash with school summer holidays | Bedfordshire News
Portfolio Holder for highways Cllr Paul Castleman said: "Following a review of the road improvement programme currently taking place in Luton we are keen to avoid the possibility of any avoidable further pressures being brought to bear on the road network at what is a peak time for the airport and holidaymakers."
Read more at Luton council postpones Aiport Way roadworks - so as not to clash with school summer holidays | Bedfordshire News
On the Monday the airport management, who were in a state of shock at what had happened, held an emergency meeting and introduced measures including mobile electric road signs directing traffic to free drop offs at the medium and long term car parks. The measures including others brought in had some effect but the school holiday period last year was a disaster.
This year it is better but with queues still reaching the A1081 during the morning peak let's just say the CTA capacity has not lived up to expectations and would have been modified this winter even if the new rail link wasn't going in.