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I live near Dunstable, I would rather drive to LGW than fly from LTN any day, was up there today, what a complete shambles, a place that fleeces passengers as a commodity and nothing else, it's all money grabbing for a vastly inferior produst where people are treated so badly
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It is rip-off Britain i'm afraid not just at Luton or most other UK airports. Still cannot believe the price of fuel, it is even cheaper to fill up in France and they do not have any vehicle road tax.
Join Date: Sep 2012
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Whats the bet that Cagliari, Nimes, Beziers and Copenhagen are moving to STN?
Join Date: Dec 2015
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Well played by Ryanair, beat easyJet in price war so easyJet cut service in March and now Ryanair are out of Luton to Stansted so we could see the busiest route out of Luton have no service at all! A loss of 700,000+! I don't understand why they are commencing routes like Cagliari when they have days ago started a service from Luton. Why do it in the first place?
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CPH I'm pretty certain will be gone. The first arrival/departure that does CPH-LTN-CPH is sourced by an aircraft based in Kaunas (because CPH is no longer a FR base but they want an early arrival into London).
The flight times for STN would suggest it's still this same aircraft now doing KUN-CPH-STN-CPH-KUN, so surely has to be replacing LTN.
Plus I doubt they are going to keep 4x daily from LTN alongside 3x daily STN. Whether they'll keep maybe a 1x daily flight remains to be seen but a switch I think is the obvious outcome to EZY throwing in the towel.
The flight times for STN would suggest it's still this same aircraft now doing KUN-CPH-STN-CPH-KUN, so surely has to be replacing LTN.
Plus I doubt they are going to keep 4x daily from LTN alongside 3x daily STN. Whether they'll keep maybe a 1x daily flight remains to be seen but a switch I think is the obvious outcome to EZY throwing in the towel.
Exactly as many had predicted. CPH goes from 0 passengers to 8 flights a day and then back to 0 in as little as 2 years. Well played by everyone. Any chance easyJet might start it up again?
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Are the pictures a shambles? Sure but I dont get the over reaction. Luton is a building site, It's a budget Airport that wants to push as many pax throug as possible. All this "people crammed, high prices etc etc" yet the pax numbers grow and grow and grow.
Luton Airport (like the rest of the airports in the uk) is nothing more then a glorified bus stop. Who is looking to spend more than the shortest amount of time in these places for the least amount of money to get somewhere they really want to be? They will never be palaces, They will always be concrete works in progress.
Have no fear though if you think it is far far to busy leaving the EU will bring the numbers down in a couple of years.
Luton Airport (like the rest of the airports in the uk) is nothing more then a glorified bus stop. Who is looking to spend more than the shortest amount of time in these places for the least amount of money to get somewhere they really want to be? They will never be palaces, They will always be concrete works in progress.
Have no fear though if you think it is far far to busy leaving the EU will bring the numbers down in a couple of years.
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The airport has removed the whiteboard that tells passengers that the lifts still don't work at the other end of the 2 bridges at the short term car park. It's a long walk back for anyone who can't manage the 4 flights of stairs.
The very fact that both these lifts are still out of action suggests a bigger problem.
The very fact that both these lifts are still out of action suggests a bigger problem.
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Last year was Luton's year but this year it will be Stansted's turn.
Although it will upset a few here Luton has grown much too fast and while it seems to be the policy never to turn any business down the airport just can't cope when passenger figures hit a million or more in any given month.
The upgrade, which actually was started in the early Spring of 2015 was started 3 years too late and was only instigated at the insistence of the council to the previous airport operator. There were further delays when Aena took control and put their own stamp on the plans.
Although it will upset a few here Luton has grown much too fast and while it seems to be the policy never to turn any business down the airport just can't cope when passenger figures hit a million or more in any given month.
The upgrade, which actually was started in the early Spring of 2015 was started 3 years too late and was only instigated at the insistence of the council to the previous airport operator. There were further delays when Aena took control and put their own stamp on the plans.
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