Airports in the UK are very easy to arrive into, if you don’t take the strict passport control area into account! If you are picking up family and friends from Luton Airport you can simply log on to the Luton Airport website and look under the arrivals tab on the homepage to see when flights have landed or when they are due to land. This makes the whole picking up process much easier as you can be at the airport for precisely the right time which means less waiting for you, the person picking someone up, and, perhaps more importantly, less money spent in expensive short stay car parking bays! Luton Airport really has flown (excuse the pun) into the 21st century – a few years ago you would have to get to the airport at the time you were told the flight was going to land, and it could often be delayed leaving you waiting around for the flight for many hours. Sometimes the flights were also early and you’d get that call whilst you were sitting at home waiting to set off saying “Hi Mum, hi Dad – the flight was early, I’m sitting outside the airport and it’s freezing!”

If you do end up early than your pickup time however, you can quite easily find something to do with an amusement arcade available. There are also plenty of payphones and internet access is available. If you’re hungry, you can also easily find yourself something to eat no matter what sort of food you’re into.