Up in the air . . .

MORE than 1.3 million passengers flew through London Luton Airport (LLA) in April, representing a 16.1% increase compared with the same month last year.

Having enjoyed over three years of continuous growth, LLA is currently making its biggest ever investment to meet soaring passenger demand and grow the airport’s capacity by 50% to 18 million in the next three years.

Last week a major milestone was reached with the opening of a new dual carriageway access road making it quicker and easier to reach the terminal. 3,500 tonnes of tarmac were used in its construction and more than 30,000 m³ of earth had to be moved. The construction of the dual carriageway follows the construction of a 1,700 space multi-storey car park and re-designed bus interchange.

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New flights to Italy from Britain and Ireland

ALITALIA has introduced a fifth daily flight from London City to Milan Linate. www.alitalia.com 

RYANAIR is to increase frequencies to Bologna with two weekly flights from Dublin and Edinburgh for the 2016 winter season. www.ryanair.com

EASYJET will introduce new flights for the 2016 winter season from Bristol, London Luton, and Manchester to Turin to facilitate winter sport tourism in Piedmont. www.easyjet.com

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Up in the air . . .

SPANISH airline AlbaStar has launched twice-weekly flights between Birmingham and Palma de Mallorca. The route will operate on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

William Pearson, Birmingham Airport’s aviation director, said: ‘We are very pleased to be welcoming Alba Star, our twelfth new airline in the space of just over a year, to Birmingham Airport. 

Birmingham Airport recently reported that it handled more than one million passengers in May.

EASYJET will operate three additional routes from London Luton this winter … to Tenerife, Lanzarote, and Toulouse. It will operate twice a week to Lanzarote and Tenerife and four times a week to Toulouse.

PASSENGERS travelling to Melbourne, Australia, from the UK will have another direct option with Emirates announcing that flights EK408 and EK409 will begin operating as non-stop services from Dubai in October.  

The current service from Dubai to Melbourne operates via Kuala Lumpur in both directions. The flight changes will save passengers approximately two-and-half hours in travel time in each direction.

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