Luton Airport Parking

Filed under: Luton Airport Car Rental - 21 Jun 2010  | Spread the word !

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Luton Airport Parking offers more than just the usual long term or short term parking – it offers mid term parking. Mid term parking is a bit confusing to get your head round as it seems to be a few features of short term mixed with a few features of long term! Perhaps the only way to think about it is a marketing ploy by Luton to try and get us to spend more on parking. Getting down to business, short stay parking at Luton is rather expensive, costing a whopping £34.50 per 24 hours, however it is possible to find a discount of up to 50% by booking in advance on their easy-to-use online bookings system.

If you’re going on holiday for two weeks or so, you definitely don’t want to be parking in short stay as it will cost you over £500! Mid term parking probably provides the best balance between ‘luxury parking’ (if it can be labelled as such!) and low prices. The mid term parks are situated relatively close to the terminals and a courtesy bus will transfer you to your terminal. For those people going away for quite a while over two weeks, the best option is most likely long term parking. Parking in these bays will cost you around £10 (slight discounts are to be had for booking well in advance) . Finally, disabled parking is of course available at Luton – there is a 1 hour free waiting period for those displaying the blue disabled badge and staff will be more than happy to assist any disabled persons with car parking, as they would any able-bodied person.

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London Luton Airport

Filed under: Luton Airport Car Rental - 04 Jun 2010  | Spread the word !

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The airport possesses a single runway, running roughly east to west, and is equipped with an Instrument Landing System rated to Category IIIB, allowing the airport to continue operating in conditions of poor visibility. All the airport facilities lie to the north of the runway. The terminal and aprons have a somewhat unusual layout, with ground-side access to the terminal being via a road (which goes under the taxiway) to a bus station, drop off area, taxi rank and short term car park on the runway side of the terminal building. Most of the aircraft stands are located on the northern side of the terminal building, away from the runway and connected to it by a ‘U’ shaped set of taxiways and aprons that together encircle the terminal.

The northern side of the U-shaped apron is ringed by a continuous line of hangars and other buildings, emphasising the fact that Luton is a major maintenance base for several airlines including Thomson Airways, Monarch Airlines and EasyJet. By contrast to the heavily built up apron area, the airport’s southern boundary is entirely rural with only a few isolated farm buildings and houses close to the airport boundary. An indicator of the importance of the airport to the economy of Luton is that Luton is reported to have the highest number of taxicabs per head of population in the United Kingdom. The airport has become even more critical to the future of Luton given the recent closure of the Vauxhall Motors factory.

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