Gilesdavies From United Kingdom, joined Dec 2003, 2903 posts, RR: 1 Posted (8 years 9 months 2 weeks 3 days 12 hours ago) and read 1302 times:
Luton Airport has just announced their passenger figures for August and handled 808,323 in August confirming their busiest month in history and during a rolling 12 month period the airport has handled in excess of 7million passengers.
I know August is the busiest time of year for passengers travelling on holiday etc...
With numerous new daily scheduled routes to be launched over the coming months these figures can only continue to rise and by this time next year could easily be touching 9/10million pax. This is phenominal growth!
The following routes are still to be launched during the next few months:
LHR27C From United Kingdom, joined Aug 2004, 1279 posts, RR: 18 Reply 2, posted (8 years 9 months 2 weeks 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 1228 times:
Good to see LTN expanding as well as STN... what is the status with extending the parallel taxiway? With so many new services, a full length parallel taxiway would really help increase runway usage.
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FJWH From Netherlands, joined May 2004, 968 posts, RR: 4 Reply 4, posted (8 years 9 months 2 weeks 2 days 19 hours ago) and read 1198 times:
Great news, the more routes, the better.
I want to visit all airports in London. I have been at STN, LHR and the 25th I'll be flying AMS - LTN - AMS for fun. Just for flying and to see the airport
Tjap
FlightS in the next 3 months: MSP, PHX, MEM, NCE, TFS, BCN. All round trips from AMS
Brettbrett21 From United Kingdom, joined Jun 2004, 436 posts, RR: 0 Reply 5, posted (8 years 9 months 2 weeks 2 days 19 hours ago) and read 1182 times:
800,000 passengers.......all crammed into one Ryanair 737!!!
Good to see Luton airport growing. Hopefully this will continue with a parallel runway, airbridges and more carriers.
On a side note (sorry to hijack thread). Saw a 4 engined aircraft fly over central luton a couple days ago on approach to LTN, wasn't a 747 or A340, looked like a 707 but had pretty large looking engines. If anyone has any info that would be good.
Gilesdavies From United Kingdom, joined Dec 2003, 2903 posts, RR: 1 Reply 6, posted (8 years 9 months 2 weeks 2 days 13 hours ago) and read 1143 times:
BrettBrett21 - "On a side note (sorry to hijack thread). Saw a 4 engined aircraft fly over central luton a couple days ago on approach to LTN, wasn't a 747 or A340, looked like a 707 but had pretty large looking engines. If anyone has any info that would be good."
This is the baby you saw on Sunday! I was there and took this picture it was a Brisair DC-8 VP-BHM. That baby sure made some noise and took all the runway to stop and to take off!
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