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No I am in the black and white photo in the background between the globe and the then Prince Charles during his last visit to the airport. The photo originally appeared on an airport magazine cover.
King Charles is seen here signing a book of condolence in memory of the lost £190m that has been written off on the Dart protect.
King Charles is seen here signing a book of condolence in memory of the lost £190m that has been written off on the Dart protect.
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Plenty of spare seats then. Reminds me of Copenhagen, when the city was Luton's busiest route. Those flights ran full but made huge loses and now there are none.
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SkyExpress to fly Luton-Athens for a week later this month
https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/221210-gqdec22lon
https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/221210-gqdec22lon
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It is always a major pain flying out of one airport and then returning to another if using airport parking. Luton Heathrow public transport connections are not great during railway strike days and even if the trains are running it is an expensive option. It seems very late in the day to inform passengers.
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Is this rescheduling due to Menzies strike action? If so I wonder if the likes of Lufthansa, Swiss Air, Air Portugal, Austrian airlines, Egypt Air, Aer Lingus and Finnair are considering similar?
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Yes I know that but should not affect the airline unless pax are instructed to wait on board for a long time because of congestion in arrivals passport control.
If Menzies cannot do a good turnaround it affects the whole day's schedule.
If Menzies cannot do a good turnaround it affects the whole day's schedule.
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Looks like with the South Stands being used as dicing bays, Luton has been unable to take any of the STN divisions tonight. Did take x3 EZY from LGW though. Obviously the area which should be used on Foxtrot is not available with Delta being closed for the attachment of the new stands.
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Geneva. Remember, the last two winters, skiing was either restricted or travel banned. How many of the passengers paid a year or so back and moved their flights to Winter 22-23? Airlines would have spent that revenue in the past. Always going to be a massive ski season anyway due Covid of Christmas past.
I flew out of LTN yesterday morning. It was still snowing a little bit as I came up Airport Way but by and large I thought inside the terminal, the airport probably coped as well as they could. My own flight like many others left 2 hours late… I feel fortunate to get out at all.
I was disappointed thought that only 1 out of 4 RYR desks were manned at 0600 - did staff just choose not to come to work? Luckily the queue was quite short.
People seem to love standing and sitting in the most stupid places.
What annoyed me is that RYR still chose to board us at the normal time, getting us to the gate an hour before where we waited for a no show bus to turn up. If there’s no prospect of an on time departure, why get people over to the aircraft longer than necessary? Everything felt a lot slower than it should’ve been. And this was slot #1… I can’t imagine what the afternoon would’ve been like. De-icing took a while to turn up, but they did a thorough job. Bags turned up an hour after it should’ve done - again staffing issues?
Fair play for keeping the airfield open bar a period the night before.. but for 5cm of snow, the industry needs to be more resilient.
I was disappointed thought that only 1 out of 4 RYR desks were manned at 0600 - did staff just choose not to come to work? Luckily the queue was quite short.
People seem to love standing and sitting in the most stupid places.
What annoyed me is that RYR still chose to board us at the normal time, getting us to the gate an hour before where we waited for a no show bus to turn up. If there’s no prospect of an on time departure, why get people over to the aircraft longer than necessary? Everything felt a lot slower than it should’ve been. And this was slot #1… I can’t imagine what the afternoon would’ve been like. De-icing took a while to turn up, but they did a thorough job. Bags turned up an hour after it should’ve done - again staffing issues?
Fair play for keeping the airfield open bar a period the night before.. but for 5cm of snow, the industry needs to be more resilient.
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I flew out of LTN yesterday morning. It was still snowing a little bit as I came up Airport Way but by and large I thought inside the terminal, the airport probably coped as well as they could. My own flight like many others left 2 hours late… I feel fortunate to get out at all.
I was disappointed thought that only 1 out of 4 RYR desks were manned at 0600 - did staff just choose not to come to work? Luckily the queue was quite short.
People seem to love standing and sitting in the most stupid places.
What annoyed me is that RYR still chose to board us at the normal time, getting us to the gate an hour before where we waited for a no show bus to turn up. If there’s no prospect of an on time departure, why get people over to the aircraft longer than necessary? Everything felt a lot slower than it should’ve been. And this was slot #1… I can’t imagine what the afternoon would’ve been like. De-icing took a while to turn up, but they did a thorough job. Bags turned up an hour after it should’ve done - again staffing issues?
Fair play for keeping the airfield open bar a period the night before.. but for 5cm of snow, the industry needs to be more resilient.
I was disappointed thought that only 1 out of 4 RYR desks were manned at 0600 - did staff just choose not to come to work? Luckily the queue was quite short.
People seem to love standing and sitting in the most stupid places.
What annoyed me is that RYR still chose to board us at the normal time, getting us to the gate an hour before where we waited for a no show bus to turn up. If there’s no prospect of an on time departure, why get people over to the aircraft longer than necessary? Everything felt a lot slower than it should’ve been. And this was slot #1… I can’t imagine what the afternoon would’ve been like. De-icing took a while to turn up, but they did a thorough job. Bags turned up an hour after it should’ve done - again staffing issues?
Fair play for keeping the airfield open bar a period the night before.. but for 5cm of snow, the industry needs to be more resilient.