Luton Airport is about to start building work on a new Security Priority Lane at the airport giving passengers the option of taking a priority lane to the security search point.

Natalie Raper, London Luton Airport Marketing Director, said “Although investment has enabled us to reduce queue times for all passengers, we are aware that some passengers would value a way of guaranteeing the quickest possible progress to the security search point.  We are therefore introducing the Priority Lane option and will be making a charge of £3.00 per passenger for this service; only passengers that choose to use the Priority Lane will be charged. By offering a choice of options we can provide an airport experience to suit the needs of all passengers.”

Once complete, passengers will be able to purchase tickets for the new Priority Lane using kiosks in the terminal.

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Ryanair is celebrating the launch of seven new routes from Luton Airport by offering fares from just £1.

The new routes launched this week are to Kaunas, Derry, Szczecin and Trapani, Beziers, Rzeszów and Biarritz.

The special priced fares include airport taxes and charges, but are subject to availability and Ryanair’s ‘terms and conditions’. Offer ends midnight Thursday.

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Wizz Air Ukraine, the first Ukrainian low fare – low cost airline, has announced it is to launch flights from Kiev Boryspil to Dortmund and Cologne (Germany), and from Lviv to Dortmund and London Luton airport.

Flights will be launched on 15 January 2009 and will be operated by the airline’s second brand new Airbus A320 aircraft due to be delivered at the beginning of January 2009.

Wizz Air Ukraine will be the only airline to link Dortmund and Cologne with the Ukrainian capital and Lviv with Germany and the UK.

The new flights are as follows:

Kiev to Dortmund    4 flights/week
Kiev to Cologne        3 flights/week
Lviv to Dortmund    3 flights/week
Lviv to London Luton    4 flights/week

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Wizz Air has announced that it is to launch flights between London Luton Airport and Kiev Boryspil starting on 17 December 2008.

Wizz Air is the first low cost airline to operate an international route to the Ukraine.

The new service will operate four times per week, increasing to daily from 28 March 2009.

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A major expansion of its route network will see nine new routes launch from London Luton Airport in the space of nine days.

These nine new routes will cover seven countries bring the number of destinations on offer at Luton to nearly 100.

First off the ground will be flights to Rotterdam, Timisoara (Romania) and Beziers (France), all launching on 27 October. Followed by flights to Szczecin (Poland), Trapani (Italy), Derry and Kaunas (Lithuania) on 28 October.

Flights to Rzeszow (Poland) and Biarritz launch on 29 October and 4 November respectively.

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A £2 million improvement programme is set to start shortly at Luton Airport.

The works will see major improvements to the bus set down area, the main terminal roundabout, drop-off facilities and the short-term car park.

The work will commence this month with a completion due at Easter 2009. Some disruption to traffic and localised congestion is likely during this time.

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Wizz Air has announced it is to double its capacity in Romania by adding an extra three new Airbus A320.

One on the new aircraft will be based at Timisoara – the airline’s 10th base which will open on 15 February 2009 – offering new services to London Luton (three times per week), Dortmund, Rome, Milan, Venice, Barcelona, Paris and Valencia.

The other aircraft will be based at Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca offering increased services to Luton airport – 10 per week from Bucharest (currently 7) and six per week from Cluj (currently four).

In response to an increase in demand, Monarch is adding an extra 12,000 seats to its scheduled services over the Christmas and New Year period.

The additional flights will operate from four of Monarch’s UK airport bases – Birmingham airport, Gatwick, London Luton and Manchester airport - to Spain, the Canaries, Portugal and Cyprus.

A record number of passengers passed through Luton Airport in August – the busiest month in the airport’s history.

Figures recently released show the airport handled 1,095,956 passengers in August, up 2.6% on the previous year – more than 27,000 additional passengers.

London Luton expects the upward trend to continue as another nine services are still to launch this year, including routes to France, Italy, Poland, Romania and Lithuania from Ryanair and Wizz Air alongside a new service to Rotterdam from the airport’s newest airline, transavia.com

easyJet has added additional flights to its Luton airport to Paris schedule due to ongoing disruption caused by the channel tunnel fire.

The extra flights will operate on 18 & 19 September as follows:

Thursday 18 September 2008:

EZY2457 London Luton - Paris (Charles de Gaulle) depart 16.45 arrive 19.00
EZY2458 Paris (Charles de Gaulle) - London Luton depart 19.30 arrive 19.45

Friday 19 September 2008:

EZY2457 London Luton - Paris (Charles de Gaulle) depart 16.45 arrive 19.00
EZY2458 Paris (Charles de Gaulle) - London Luton depart 19.30 arrive 19.45