Why is Travel Mole above a different perspective?...

The end result is LTN have acquired 10 self-propelled wheelchairs & put into place other related services.

TBH as much as I refer to Travel Mole,the general public do not & will get their news feed from the likes of the BBC witness this pm.

The wheelchair user has won the argument.

This is why the airport is never too keen on people taking photos or video at the airport as they have no control of the content unless they provide minders. With most of the terminal now complete and looking at the finish of airport provided fixtures and fittings I don't expect that position to change anytime soon.

They are still digging out plenty of rubbish including an old bicycle. Looking at the plan there doesn't seem to be any room for aircraft to pass each other when being de-iced. I am guessing the brown areas are the maneuvering areas for the de-icing trucks.

Note the red line marks the boundary of the rubbish tip.
https://i.imgur.com/PDGDOHm.jpg

Construction update
 

This is the terminals grand entrance. Personally I think it is a shocker. The slatted wood gaps are too wide and only covers the middle section with almost every pipe, cable, trunking and heating duct on show. Not content with this a careful look over at Pret shows two massive heating ducts that jut out below the natural height of the ceiling. What can't be seen in this photo is a matching gap either side of the slats. Also seen is the mass of filler that has replaced the broken floor tiles.
https://i.imgur.com/E1oLJUE.jpg

Into the new terminal extension by the airside exit shows that the slats don't even cross at right angles in the direction people walk so blocking part of the view of the services. What is quite nice is the large screen video wall showing video and arrival times located behind the temporary arrivals sign.
https://i.imgur.com/tCWCBL2.jpg

I actually have doubts whether the rest of the new build will even get a slatted ceiling as it achieves little. Also I don't know why they didn't spray all the silver black to help hide it.
https://i.imgur.com/qli4j74.jpg

Outside another section of covered bus waiting area is being covered in fabric.
https://i.imgur.com/J0o0xRJ.jpg

Windows have arrived onsite to part cover the old temporary entrance. As seen work continues on the main walk to the terminal which is having a more moderate slope put in.
https://i.imgur.com/sssyCj9.jpg

Meanwhile sheet piling is being put in at the station site while the concrete piling to the right and out of sight is being exposed.
https://i.imgur.com/sXs6swR.jpg

Sheet piling is also being sunk just behind the crane for the temporary road route. With a small parking area going in which is being tarmacked in this photo, I am now starting to think that all road traffic will end up going around the bus station roundabout so allowing a section of cut and cover to be dug out. Also the easyjet building is having its orange restored so it would seem that they are going nowhere.
https://i.imgur.com/nBewZ60.jpg

Work is continuing on the foundations of the second multistory. The footprint of this second multistory is truly massive. In the distance can be seen work on Foxtrot being carried out.
https://i.imgur.com/UMMj9wX.jpg

Finally the leveling of the ground for taxiway foxtrot and the deicing pads is taking place just by the long term car park.
https://i.imgur.com/6oErcyc.jpg

Answered my own question this morning - yes, Iberia flights as well as Alitalia now get announced on the airport PA.

Strange, can you book flights on the Alitalia booking engine? I know you can on Iberia's?

What I don't understand is that the new build floor was breaking up within weeks of opening but just like the 1999 floor of the main part of the terminal no one has ever gone back to fix it so no warranty comes to mind. The strange thing is that cleaners pick away at chewing gum which is the same colour as the filler yet the filler looks like elephants chewing gum and can cover several tiles at a time.

Maybe I should crawl around the terminal floor on by bum and send the footage to the BBC. Thinking Wheelchairs.

Cool, didn't work when did a quick try on my phone. Perhaps this is a toe in the water to other Alitalia schedules finally moving from LHR ;-)?

Thanks to LTNman for the photos showing the awful non-ceiling. What would be interesting would be to see if there are 'artist impressions' from the original application / PR as to how it would look when finished. Coz it sure wouldn't look it does.

Trying to relieve the boredom while stood waiting in the queue at Passport Control, you look up towards the myriad of air conditioning ducts located in the ceiling. Most are now covered in an inch thick layer of grey, woolly dust, which I would hazard a guess now represents a fire risk in addition to the hazard of breathing in said particles for those entering the country.
What a welcome !

The vision before half the wooden ceiling got scrapped. My top photo was taken by the second pillar from the right of the artists impression. The actual layout is spot on but it is just the finish as though no one cares about passenger perceptions. This is why the airport will struggle to attract anymore full fare airlines. It's the little things like the airport putting up plasterboard walls and then painting them with white emulsion so within 10 minutes of the paint drying they get scuffed.

Also when did Luton last attract a new airline to fly services into it? Don't remember any in 2018. Luton is only full for night stoppers and not for foreign airlines wanting daytime access.



https://i.imgur.com/i4GjYTs.jpg

With the cost this development put at £160 million I would have thought an extra £100,000 spend on fixtures and fittings would have gone a long way but with the Spanish concessionaires having to eventually hand the airport back they are in no mood to spend more than they have to especially with a 60% overspend on the original projected cost.

The whole airport is once again a mass building site with cranes and machinery in all four corners of the airport.

Thanks LTNman, exactly what I suspected. Cutting costs now, only makes the future more expensive.

Allegedly, taxiway Foxtrot has been a disaster! Having to backfill due to the ex landfill contamination being exposed and a subsequent environmental disaster ! Now I have been told that the wing tip clearance is not sufficient to permit passing on Delta and newly realigned Foxtrot!

Billy Smart's legacy lives on! What next? Building Tinminal 2 on on the old Tidy Tip?