Athens, Bari and Reykjavik announced by Wizz Air.

Split has also now been loaded for the summer and the second morning flights to Bourgas on Tue, Thur and Sat.
Good to see Athens back daily 06.00 dep
Bari 4 x wkly 1,3,5,7 06.30 dep
Reykjavik 4 x wkly 1,3,5,7 07.10 dep

Surprised they have gone for Reykjavik
Think more additions are likely to come for the other days

If this is what Harrods are discussing as a long term solution then I'm sure the big expense of new facilities which would need completely new infrastructure will only come after any T2 project is approved. It would be a lost opportunity if Signature did not get on-board as well. Any access would have to be via upgraded roads within South Beds rather than Luton but were there not plans for routing of the A505 South of the airport at one time as part of a East of England initiative?
Short term there is the NHT runway closure as well which will push up demand at Luton further.

Athens, that was a EZY route at one time before RYR jumped on it from STN.
Reykjavik is getting very crowded now.

7 airframes to be based including 2 A321s

Tui S18 schedule now looks finished
LTN will see a Friday Palma operated by Air Europa
a Sunday Palma operated by Alba Star
a Tuesday Tenerife operated by Smart Wings

Saturdays Palma is now operated by a W pattern TUI a/c and the Thursday flight has now gone

The Reykjavik route from Luton has been doing very well with a significant increase in traffic by looking at the statistics from this year compared with previous, with only easyJet operating.

I always thought easyJet would start Athens again, but looks like Wizz beat them too it!

Has that route even been going a year! - Still no-one jumping to into GIB

Sure there is some sort of restrictions regarding the flight crews used to fly into GIB

I thinik i read on the easyjet thread a while ago that it requires specific training

Something ex-MON crews would have had on their CVs and a premium to employers who might be serious about reconnecting this well established route. Time will tell.

Quite a few easy crew conversant with flying into GiB with schedules from Bristol, Gatwick and Manchester but as you say Pabely time will tell. Right about Athens but pleasantly surprised. Never saw Reykjavik or Bari but still no Plovdiv (second city of Bulgaria) which I have been droning on about for a whie.
Thse Tui flights are those extra to the original schedule?

I imagine Wizz Air will have a bit more to announce with 7 based aircraft.

Plovdiv is just 2 hours from Sofia and has a decreasing population (unlike Burgas and Varna). Wizz Air have never operated anything from there but who knows, they might surprise us one day.

I would expect a second Varna aircraft before. Ryanair beat them to Burgas.

Airport Land
 

Hello LTNman,

"There is a large pocket of land to the south of the runway that is almost the size of the main apron that is still part of Luton that could be used just for biz jet storage. The problem is getting aircraft towed there which would mean crossing the runway but Luton’s runway is not always busy."

As far as I am aware, there are only two pieces of land (south of the runway) owned by the airport. One parcel is the small area located near to Point A crash gate where spotters frequent and the area located opposite B1 and C1 taxiways, but that area is slightly smaller than the current south apron.

Does the airport own the vast farm land south of the perimeter fence?

I think LTNman is referring to Luton BC rather than Luton Airport. Have a look at http://www2.luton.gov.uk/localplan/m...set_02_066.htm

Yes, I used a poor choice of words as I was talking about the land that is within Luton rather than Hertfordshire.

Comparing the size of the south stands to the land within Luton’s boundary on Pabley’s link shows it could provide more than enough parking to keep all the FBO’s happy. As it could be just a remote apron it would not need the full range of services an apron would normally need.

I wonder if EasyJet will announce GIB for the second phase of routes in January 2018? If anyone is to operate the LTN-GIB I would say it will be them who do it.

Many thanks Pabely and LTNman, I was not aware that land was in Luton, but now stand corrected.

I wonder how much busier the FBO’s would be if they were not constrained.

Like this place https://flightaware.com/live/airport/KTEB :E