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Old 20th Mar 2020, 21:35
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Remember the morning rush at Luton? Just 3 departures on Saturday between 6:00 and 8:00

No arrivals from 9:30 to 12.10
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Old 21st Mar 2020, 13:01
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Old 21st Mar 2020, 14:01
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He can only speak for LLAOL and can’t speak for the companies that are based at the airport.

He says work on airport expansion has been suspended but what bit of airport expansion is he talking about as 95% of pre expansion work is being undertaken and paid for by LLAL and not LLAOL. I can only think of the new apron and modifications to the run up bay that might be paid for by LLAOL. Work on the Dart, which is all about airport expansion continues. Nothing about the DCO being suspended or plans to drop the dual carriageway unless he speaks for the council which I doubt.

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Old 23rd Mar 2020, 05:19
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Blue Air has temporary stopped operations from 21st March
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Old 23rd Mar 2020, 18:46
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Plan is Wizz will move all their A/C to Doncaster on Wednesday, Ryanair to suspend all LTN operations, will keep A/C based at LTN to fly circuits every few days.
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Old 25th Mar 2020, 04:45
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No Easyjet or Ryanair flights showing on the departure boards for today, just 7 Wizz flights.

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Old 25th Mar 2020, 12:00
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Old 25th Mar 2020, 12:32
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The contact stands must be much freer now that Wizzair UK have decamped to Donny
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Old 25th Mar 2020, 13:10
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11 Wizz flights in total today as the boards have had additions added. Still strong demand for Budapest and Bucharest with 3 flights each with an additional 3 flights to other Romanian destinations.

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Old 25th Mar 2020, 21:34
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Most of The Wizz flights to Bucharest are sold out. Available flights are selling for close to £400 for a single flight. With no flights on Saturday the first availability is Sunday. All flights seem to be by A321.

Plenty of inbound availability.
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Old 26th Mar 2020, 14:30
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Even with the limited Biz Jet flights now, they are outnumbering Sheduled flights now.
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Old 26th Mar 2020, 15:13
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Something was doing circuits today around lunchtime. I was a long way away but it looked like it had a high wingspan.
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Old 26th Mar 2020, 15:28
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Originally Posted by LTNman
Something was doing circuits today around lunchtime. I was a long way away but it looked like it had a high wingspan.
I believe a RAF 146 did a couple of overshoots.
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Old 26th Mar 2020, 15:32
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Originally Posted by LTNman
Something was doing circuits today around lunchtime. I was a long way away but it looked like it had a high wingspan.
Cessna 172?, back to the days of 24/06 & 36/18?
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Old 26th Mar 2020, 15:56
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I was thinking it was a 146 as it had the right profile but I was too far away to see the engines. Think it did 3 approaches.
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Old 27th Mar 2020, 19:09
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Feb 2020 Stats

Irrelevant now but Feb show a slight drop in pax numbers and rolling figure was 17,999,452!
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Old 27th Mar 2020, 20:01
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I wonder how many months it will take to recover to the previous peak...
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Old 27th Mar 2020, 20:18
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Originally Posted by LGS6753
I wonder how many months it will take to recover to the previous peak...
It won't be months, it will be years.
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Old 27th Mar 2020, 22:36
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It will indeed be years, as the world will come out of this looking very different than it did from only a couple of months ago.

Once the virus is conquered in the U.K. that will be only the start. If the government has any sense it will ban foreign travel to and from any country that still has cases, as we will just reinfect the country again if we don’t. Then there is the financial cost to the country and individuals.

While the council will no doubt go ahead with the DCO just to bag any permission, expansion will be many years away. If the airport came out with anything above 12million for 2021 it will have done well but future growth will be slow as the world recovers. Also Luton could lose out to Gatwick and maybe Stansted as they will also be looking to fill a void.

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Old 28th Mar 2020, 07:52
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The other massive challenge for LTN perhaps above other London airports is Brexit, if the Government continue on their kamikaze course. High unemployment from corona will drastically reduce incoming migration and if greater migrants from the last 15 years head back than anticipated either because of the economy or they’re made unwelcome that will further compromise the massive Wizz operation even further. That is assuming Wizz like many other airlines can weather a long shutdown.
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