Luton moving up the league!

[Buster the Bear]

Well I am not referring to the sky high Hatter's!

UK Airports Passenger Figures - August 2004

Aug 2004 Aug 2003 % +/-

Heathrow 6,334,206 6,211,400 1.98%
Gatwick 3,702,646 3,628,383 2.05%
Manchester 2,423,871 2,371,417 2.21%
Stansted 2,164,758 1,978,936 9.39%
Birmingham 966,335 1,017,450 -5.02%
Glasgow 871,754 835,058 4.39%
Luton 808,516 712,008 13.55%
Edinburgh 775,096 717,974 7.96%
Newcastle 524,768 473,127 10.91%
East Midlands 500,484 484,101 3.38%
Bristol 492,746 422,161 16.72%
Belfast Int. 478,203 421,441 13.47%
Liverpool 347,813 327,184 6.31%
Aberdeen 240,407 224,768 6.96%
Leeds/Brad 240,137 226,275 6.13%
Cardiff 221,488 231,960 -4.51%
Prestwick 212,045 190,784 11.14%
Belfast City 209,230 198,027 5.66%
Jersey 175,892 182,571 -3.66%
Southampton 151,909 140,246 8.32%
London City 122,699 109,971 11.57%

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[Ian Farquharson]

Hey Buster I wonder where you got that from !

Luton's top routes in August :-

Malaga - 47,175
Palma - 42,239
Edinburgh - 41,177
Glasgow - 40,926
Nice - 39,084
Amsterdam - 38,994
Belfast - 36,926
Dublin - 36,263
Geneva - 34,310
Alicante - 32,978
Paris - 31,856
Faro - 28,858
Barcelona - 26,647
Zurich - 24,758
Berlin - 21,650
Bergamo - 21,085

New Routes

Budapest - 18,851
Katowice - 13,014
Warsaw - 13,014
Gdansk - 4,370


Ian

[CAP670]

Official figures from the CAA's Economic Regulation Group...

Luton also ranks in 7th or 8th UK place (depending on the data source consulted) for air transport and IFR movements.

Not bad for a 2160-metre runway without full-length taxiways, sitting on an often cloud-shrouded hill top! And this before Ryanair moves in big-time after next month...

:ok:

[Powerjet1]

September's prov figs show LTN @ 739,347(+14.7%) just eclipsing EDI @ 732,038(+6.6%).

October will probably see EDI taking the lead again, by a small amount, since summer holiday charters ex LTN tend to fall away during the month. Figs around 675/680k can be expected for LTN.

[LTNman]

The newsgroup free.uk.airports-luton are reporting that the airport have bought 4 mega snowploughs and de-icers which have a top speed of 50mph. Clearing snow at LTN has always been a slow process to hopefully things will improve. Picture at http://www2.abtn.co.uk/

[Leodis]

Not bad for a 2160-metre runway without full length taxiways, sitting on an often cloud-shrouded hill top

So there's still hope for Leeds and Bristol?:{

[Buster the Bear]

Hi Mr I F, the CAA web site.....hahaha!

A mutual friend...........BRAVO!

Birmingham doing rather well I see.

Feb figures for Luton shall look good from Feb 05 onwards, first full month of the Ryans?

Zurich, now dropped by easyJet featured well in those figures above!

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[MerchantVenturer]

There's always hope, Leodis.

I guess a good start would be to re-introduce a LBA-BRS service.

BTW, BRS does have a full length taxiway and Cat III at one end of the runway (II at the other), not that all aircraft seem to be compatibly equipped for the III.

I hadn't realised LTN's runway was that short.

[Powerjet1]

It's not just to do with length, it's what you do with it that matters.

[phnuff]

And this before Ryanair moves in big-time after next month...

Oh they're not are they ?

More PA28 hours going in circles :yuk:

[terrier21]

looks like BRS is still the biggest grower! although im sure the summer to winter transition may decrease the growth slightly.

PS lets see some new airlines or more expanding not just orange!