There are certainly no toilets on the walk from the original gates and I can’t remember any on the walk from the new pier. Now I think about it I don’t remember seeing any in the immigration hall. It’s only when passengers pass into the baggage hall that toilets are provided but I think they are closed due to the building work.

Could the lack of toilets pre immigration have something to do with asylum seekers flushing documents down the toilet?

When I flew out of Luton a couple of weeks ago the toilets in the new pier were in a disgusting state. There were used paper towels all around the washbasins and on the floors as no hand dryers had been fitted and the bins were overflowing. Apparently this was the same in the Ladies.

As for seating there is plenty of room for some seating to be provided in the new pier but I counted only 2 sets of 4 seats. Most passengers who want to sit down end up sitting on the low level windowsills.

The 2 escalators in the new pier which transport passengers over the service road bridge were also still not working.

Picture in the local Sunday paper of Alastair Darling officially opening the new departure lounge/arrivals hall last Thursday. Bet he had no problem finding a seat & I sure the toilets were in a 'superb' condition from just prior to his arrival and for a few minutes after he and the other VIPs had left .

See that Terravision have now launched their low-cost coach service from LTN to Victoria, with services opearting 24 hrs a day, every 20 mins. Stops made at Brent Cross, Baker St, Marble Arch on route to Victoria. Basically a rebranding of the previous Green Line service with better timings.

I saw on TV passengers being interviewed about the new lounge. The comments were very positive but some passengers commented on the lack of seating.

Ryanair launch Luton-Knock starting from October. Daily flight.

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Yep. Seems to be filling the gap, timewise, for the loss of the Esbjerg route back to STN. Very similar.

From the thomsonfly announcement today, it does indeed look like a 4th airframe to be Luton based next summer although you cannot book the 'high frequency' routes to Ibiza, Palma, Malaga and Alicante just yet at www.thomsonfly.com?

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Flights are now available to book, but it is rather confussing, www.thomsonfly.com has different flights to www.thomson.co.uk and therefore they are running two rather similar brands on four of the same destinations, Alicante, Palma, Ibiza and Malaga!

So will there be 3xThomson and 1xThomsonFly based next summer?

I am sure someone out there can explain this bizarre marketing to me?

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The Thomsonfly timetable looks more like a charter service than a scheduled service. Flights run on average 4 or 5 times a week at different times each day with plenty of red eye specials.

I hope the market is big enough. Taking LTN- AGP as just one example, from May 06, it will have 41 scheduled weekly departures spread around easy, monarch & Thomsonfly, plus charters.

It looks like the Green Line branding will be kept. The Terravison website lists the service operated in partnership with Green Line.

I must buy shares in a concrete manufacturing firm!

It could be a busy apron creating winter again!

So why are Luton's 'largest' based airline loath to expand thier locally based product? They are taking thier eyes off their home base?

The future for Luton next year, clearly is NOT ORANGE!

BMI Regional
Wizz
Britannia....Whoops...Thomson/Fly/Flights/cheap

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It’s not a bad thing that the future is not orange. Only a few years ago it appeared that all of LTN’s eggs were in one basket, which is a dangerous thing. With only very limited short term expansion available a selection of airlines will secure LTN’s future.

If 2 new stands are built this winter then my bet is that they will be built in the short term car park as I believe planning permission will not be required and planning permission already exists for a new pier to link this area to the terminal. Digging up the grass for new stands is a different story and planning permission would be required which could take some time. My guess is for new stands opposite stand 47 and 48.

As I have said before, until Luton beomes an Airbus base, we can expect little expansion from easyJet?

This does of course leave the 'door' wide open for others to fill the void. I hope, I really hope that others do, as easyJet seem to have forgotten thier roots....Nov 1995, the start of the Low-Cost revolution in Europe. Two GB Airways 737's. 'Charlie Golf & Charlie Hotel' painted in easyOrange 01582 292929! (£29 for a pair of quality jeans)

Ryanair would like to think that they kicked the fares war off, but Stelios was the leader!

"Scotland for a pair of jeans"

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Wait till Nov 10th !!!.

For what. More meat please!

10th Nov is 10th anniversary of easyJet's first flight.

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King Pong

Sorry, value my life too much. Patience required.

Luton didn't break the 1m pax in August. Had 933,857, up 15.6%. Annual 12m now 8.74m, beating GLA by a wisper.

So 'news' expected on Nov 10th. That is either easyJet expanding, or another airline trying to steal the media from the 10th anniversary celebrations?

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Has to be Ryanair news or will protect 2030 details be released on that day?

I know, that's the day the fence by the short term car park is going to be cleared of rubbish!

Understand the new owners are working their butts off in many areas at the present time. The next 6 to 12 months could be very interesting at LTN, even, if just some of them come to fruition. Perhaps, at last, LTN will come of age.

Definately a case of 'Watch this Space'