@nospam: "ATM's
6088 up 13.3%.
Year on year to July 31st 60,798 up 5.2%
Passengers
749,462 up 10.6%
Year on year to July 31st 7,026,718 up 4.4%"
    @nospam: ""Informer" <email_address> wrote
<quote>
This is only the 4th time LTN has broken the 700,000 in a calendar month.
The other three occasions were in the last three Augusts.  The previous best
July was last year when 679,560 passengers passed through LTN.
By the end of January another 6 aircraft will be based at Luton so one can
only wonder what LTN will have handled by the end of next year.  Airports
like Edinburgh and Glasgow will be looking over their shoulders."
    @nospam: ""Chris" <email_address> wrote
<quote>
Yes this is the all time record. The old record was set on August 2003 and
was  712,038
yes, but it is 3 x EZY 737 at 149 seats each and 4 x FR 738's at 189 seats
each ( I think) but don't forget that their 737-200 is being retired.  Year
on year figures for the Scottish airports are
Edinburgh 7,782,442
Glasgow 8,321,555"
    @obone: ""Informer" <email_address> wrote
<quote>
Year
The problem is that EDI and GLA have also got good growth rates so the goal
posts are always moving further up the pitch making it harder for LTN to
catch up."
    @nospam: "news:<email_address>
<quote>
The airport carried slightly more passengers in 1972 than 1973.  I have gone
through my old books and can't find any UK stats for 1972 or 1973.  In 1964
these were the airports handling more than one million passengers.
Heathrow 9,464,260
Manchester 1,321,618
Glasgow 1,173,824
Gatwick 1,118,288
Out of interest Luton was 174,545
In 1981 Luton International Airport was Britain's second largest airport in
terms of international charter flights"
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