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Their passengers won’t like the morning rush hour queues around the back of the hangars to get from stand 62 to out of the airport
Which brings us nicely back to the issue of the cr*p local road system in Luton, the cr*p local Borough Council and it's cr*p road planning, because on past performance, absolutely nothing will be achieved by 2007 irrespective of the amount of development undertaken on the Airport site.
The idiots couldn't even get the traffic lights at the bottom of Airport Way to work properly!!
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LLA have announced details of their public exhibitions re their draft Master Plan. There seems to be about 15 being held prior to Christmas. Some of the larger locations are.....
Milton Keynes 10 November
Stevenage 14 November
Wendover(Aylesbury) 16 November
Luton 24/25 November
Dunstable 30 November
Bedford 20 December
Hitchin 21 December
Wait for the fireworks !!!!!!
Milton Keynes 10 November
Stevenage 14 November
Wendover(Aylesbury) 16 November
Luton 24/25 November
Dunstable 30 November
Bedford 20 December
Hitchin 21 December
Wait for the fireworks !!!!!!
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Staff will be the big losers here with most of them including the easyland hangar HQ workers being bussed to the back of beyond to pick up their cars. It won’t be just them either as easyjet flight crew have also had access to the central staff car park.
The majority of Heathrow's 'coal-face' staff that work in the Central Area have to park northside and are bussed in and out; the ATC staff at Gatwick also have to park remotely and are transported to/from the control tower; even at Southampton, airport staff have to park in the long-stay car park and take the shuttle bus to the terminal area.
Apart from flight crew, it will be interesting to see which other staff at Luton have to park remotely and catch a shuttle bus to/from their employment location. Given the wholly inadequate road system on the Airport and the apparent inability of LLAO and the Council to improve things even on an interim basis, anyone unfortunate enough to be travelling during the 'rush hours' is likely to find their daily journey to/from work extended by up to 50 minutes [25 minutes each way] which is a significant amount of wasted time.
Since the aim of LLAO is to 'encourage' as many staff as possible to use public transport (the alleged 'Green' approach) no doubt the loss of any/most/all staff parking facilities in Luton's Central Terminal Area will be seen as being simply part of this initiative.
However, for H24 shift workers, unless they can easily use/access Thameslink's services, public transport is hardly a viable commuting option.
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Which brings us nicely back to the issue of the cr*p local road system in Luton, the cr*p local Borough Council and it's cr*p road planning, because on past performance, absolutely nothing will be achieved by 2007 irrespective of the amount of development undertaken on the Airport site.
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Lets not forget the massive housing scheme that has been started at Butterfield Green on the A505 next to the towns crematorium.
Pity the Styrian Spirit ops between LTN-KLU will only run until 26 March, when it will transfer to LGW as their preferred airport because of longhaul connections.
Can't help feeling that despite all the expansion earmarked by the spanish operators at LTN, they will always have an uphill struggle in attracting new business into LTN, rather than the airlines choosing LGW or STN in preference. What can they offer to the many establised airlines flying into these airports, to up sticks and move to LTN. Not much apart from the availability of slots. Certainly not better access or facilities.
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I'm hearing that the BMI service to Brussels might not happen after all even though they are taking bookings. Might explain why there hasn’t been any announcement on the airports website about this service.
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Wizz have announced they are starting flights from Wroclaw to Dortmund in March. Wizz is the 5th city in Poland to be served by Wizz. With all the others served from LTN, I'm sure Wroclaw will shortly become the first of up to three new routes that Wizz will be starting from LTN during 2006.
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More from Aer Arann
Daily flight by Aer Arann to Lorient starting from next March according to the Arann home page. If you look at the timetable the flight departs from Luton at 09:00, arriving back from Lorient late afternoon. One can assume that another route is to follow to feed the aircraft into Luton for the 09:00 departure, because the timings for Galway, Waterford and IOM are unaltered?
It is going to be rather busy next summer!
It is going to be rather busy next summer!
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Daily flight by Aer Arann to Lorient starting from next March according to the Arann home page
and yes there is more to come!
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Now Cork would keep the in-laws happy, Kerry would have them doing a jig!
Lorient should satisfy some of the second home owners now that Dinard has gone back to Essex?
All this expansion, but none from easyJet!
Lorient should satisfy some of the second home owners now that Dinard has gone back to Essex?
All this expansion, but none from easyJet!
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Nov 10th, ten years of easyJet. Are they going to announce further expansion from thier home base airport, or leave it to thier competitors to lead the way?
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To be honest Buster, whilst I know all expansion is good news I'd much rather see other airlines continue to expand to help erase a bit of that glaring orange!
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By the time easyJet are in a position to expand from Luton, other airlines will have taken on the extra capacity that is scheduled to be delivered by the airport for 2007 inc terminal and apron developments?
H89 painted easyOrange, that will look nice! I hope they have a big pot of paint as it will probably take a year to paint it, so just in time for easyJet to move in!
H89 painted easyOrange, that will look nice! I hope they have a big pot of paint as it will probably take a year to paint it, so just in time for easyJet to move in!
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Heard Luton could face disruption near Xmas since the TGWU are likely to poll workers for stike action, because it claims Polish workers are being paid less than their UK counterparts. Seems to involve Big Orange Handling.
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This could well be true, i work at Luton and know that about 20 poles started working for the big orange handling company and are on significantly lower wages than there english counterparts, but can you blame the big orange company? Cheaper workers for a low cost airline why not
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October passenger figures: Stansted only up 0.6% at 1.917m.
Why the less than single digit growth? Seems very odd especially as Ryanair have more based planes there than during Oct 04?
Granted the monthly figure is high, but to me, the growth only means one thing, plenty of empty seats on planes?
Why the less than single digit growth? Seems very odd especially as Ryanair have more based planes there than during Oct 04?
Granted the monthly figure is high, but to me, the growth only means one thing, plenty of empty seats on planes?
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Expect a bit of a media circus in the Tinminal tomorrow, especially for the 10th anniversary departure to Glasgow!
Now where is my autograph book?
No I am not that sad!
Now where is my autograph book?
No I am not that sad!