I heard rumours a while ago it was Minonian Airlines that had recently started ops out of Oxford.

Not heard anything in the last month or so of any new rumours.

I cannot believe an airline has not taken over Galway and Waterford. Was a 'ready made' market and the yields were once excellent, just like Kerry for Ryanair.

Not Minoan..

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Yeah it's strange, must be some other factor which has prevented a airline starting up in WAT/GWY. I though loganair would go to GWY.. Would probably be better loads than CFN-GLA, I know the only reason they are in Donegal though is for the pso to dublin.

Lack of European Carriers with available prop aircraft for the routes perhaps? No idea. While Darwin was mentioned to me twice and the airline is apparently foreign. I cant help of think of someone like Avanti or Swiftair.. They seem to enjoy operating flights out of countries that they are based nowhere near. All be it for other airlines.

It will be interesting to see who it ends up being. I think they cant really lose on this route.

I honestly think that it may be Darwin that is rumoured.. Not even sure to be honest.

Would Darwin really base an aircraft in WAT or LTN for just one route? Or would it be possible they launch WAT from Cambridge, perhaps an odd one but its not a million miles from the LTN or STN catchments. WAT has been operated from STN in previous years.

First there was London Oxford... now we are discussing London Cambridge...
Didn't know there was a particularly large Irish community in Cambridgeshire but I'm happy to be told I'm wrong.
Fond memories of OLT Express flying Southend-Dresden are coming to mind right now

I don't expect it to be any of the above carriers mentioned.

Possibly Loganair?

Hey Mart I think I read they will not be British.

Does anyone know if the ELAL on Friday is a 777.. I fancy a photo of one of those heavies in Luton.

PPHE Hotel Group Limited Acquisition of London Luton Airport Site - WSJ.com

As mentioned here a few months ago another hotel is being built at the airport on a slither of land opposite the Ibis. The lease of the land is costing £120,000 a year.

runway08 - a simple search on the El Al Web site shows it as a B763

Wizz now appear to have new flights from Luton to Donetsk & Kosice listed in their booking engine, although actual booking is not possible yet.

Kosice is up now. 4x per week operated by a Sofia based aircraft.

Donetsk seems to be getting a few more new routes, with Memmingen, Milan-Bergamo and Rome-Fiumicino also showing making there possibly six routes from Donetsk with existing routes to Dortmund and Kutaisi.

Really wish they'd reintroduce flights to Lviv - such a lovely city..

A little more detail about the new Kosice route

Ko?ice to get direct flight to London - The Slovak Spectator

The Donetsk flights are also available now, with the route commencing 2 Oct, twice wkly, on Wed, Su.

Both Donetsk and Kosice operate into LTN in the afternoon, so no increase in the early morning rush is involved.

New orders placed for trains for Thameslink that will serve Luton

DfT awards contract for new fleet of trains - Media centre - News | First Capital Connect

The airport fire service swung into action in the drop off zone when a car caught fire.

Some people will do anything to get out of paying the £2 drop off fee :E

Large overflow of Biz-Jets again onto South Stands, some sporting events going on again? :E

My Father was speaking to an Arriva bus driver on Thursday regarding bus services to the airport.

Arriva pull all their services from tomorrow. Apparantly National Express are not happy and are suing the airport because they are not getting the passenger numbers that the airport promised them.

This is because Arriva sold a lot of tickets through certain airlines, which National Express don't accept. Also there were quite a few pensioners using their bus passes (like my dad) which National Express also don't accept.

Who knows, in a few weeks they may be no buses!

F1 British GP at Silverstone would be my bet. HTH

Level bus

Arriva have replaced the 61/321 service with a new service to Luton station which operates every 15 minutes and 24 hours a day from today. Depending on where you live will determine whether this is a huge improvement to the service or not.
This is also cunningly stopping outside the new parkway station entrance and is aimed at competing with the airport-parkway shuttle run by First.
The trouble Arriva will have is getting bums on seat, I cannot see that the airport will allow any advertising of the service and the same goes for parkway station as thats run by First so they have a vested interest in the existing airport.

The 100 service to/from Hitchin continues to run as before.

Lets see if the airport swallow their pride and promote the services to passengers and encourage use of public transport or just go for protecting their tidy income from First.....

Rupert Diggins, Balkan Holidays sales and marketing manager said: "We already fly out of virtually every UK airport, so this move is designed to provide additional departure points to increase capacity to Bulgaria and open up new UK regions.

Can I book Balkan Holidays from Luton.....? The 'drop down' on their flights page lists Luton, but no destinations or flights are available?

http://i42.tinypic.com/2mcftrp.jpg

Buster -

I think BH use Wizzair flights to Bourgas on which they build package holidays. They don't sell Wizz 'flight-only'.

Wizz have announced another new destination from Luton, their third in a week, to Craiova, Romania. The route will commence on the 29 October and operate 3 x wkly.

Whilst booking a flight to Zurich in the last few minutes, I noticed that easy appear to have flights loaded from Luton to Venice commencing on the 13 February. Is this a very recent addition, as I hadn't heard anything.

EASSYJET VENICE
 

Yes, looks like 4 times weekly - Thursday, Friday, Sunday and Monday - already loaded on the booking engine untl the end of March (winter season).

Great news
Couldn't understand why this popular destination has been missing for so long.
Now it would be nice to see Copenhagen next if anybody at Easy is listening!

Great news...

Italy had been quite poorly served from Luton until a few years ago...

We have flights to nearly all the major tourist destinations in Italy now. Pisa, Rome, Milan and now Venice. I think there is also routes to Sardinia and Scitaly too?!

I just wonder if the Venice route will see another routes frequency cut or a dropped to accommodate this.

Luton Kosice
 

Kosice is a destination that interests me.

Zilina / Zvolen is where I head to i.e. central Slovakia and KSC is just as easy to use by rail as Vienna/Bratislava.

I was looking as Wizz site just now, it seems to show daily flights, not sure if that an error or the media reports are wong. Didn't actually try and book one, was just looking for an idea of the schedule and fares.

What I could really do with is Luton - Sliac but I think might have a long wait for that one :)

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Nick

With EZY FLYING FROM SEN to venice on (MON-WED-FRI-SUN}will their be enough PAX

Venice
 

And LGW is double daily, I'm sure they guys at EZY have done their research..

FALCON - CPH is a destination from STN by EZY so don't expect to see it from LTN (unless they transfer the route).

A4

I think CPH it was start by GO orginally.

As for the new VEN and extra TLV flights, does this mean a new based frame, reduction from routes somewhere else of a frame operating from a remote base serving these routes?

Luton Kosice
 

Update my comment of 2 days ago

Looked at Wizz again today and now shows 4 per week MWFSu which is more in line with press releases.

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Nick

Looking forward to seeing yez all at Luton on Monday! A big Cork contingent heading over from Kerry as we cant go from Cork! ;)

Heathrow is closed and LTN are taking diversions