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London
Luton Airport is the fourth largest of London’s
airports, offering flights to major European
destinations for passengers from London, the
South East, the Midlands and the East of England.
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The
airport provides scheduled and leisure charter
passenger, air cargo and business aviation
services, general aviation, aircraft maintenance,
flight catering, hotels and travel agent services. |
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- Within Luton,
aerospace accounts for 9% of all
businesses and provides employment
for 5% of people.
- The capacity
of the airport is planned to increase
to serve 10 million passengers per
year.
- London
Luton Airport is Luton’s largest
employer and hugely important to
the city’s economic well being.
- Employing
over 8,000 people, it effectively
provides jobs for 14% of all Lutonians.
- These occur
in a variety of fields, supporting
all the necessary functions and
business services required to support
the increasing demands of modern
aircraft, airlines and passenger
industries.
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In
the Luton City Growth area there are
660 businesses involved in the airport
and it’s related business activities
– this covers 18% of all businesses
in Luton employment for 6,017 people.
The number of employees is increasing
by 6.7% year on year. |
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(Source:
CAA Statistics, Luton City Growth Strategy,
2005) |
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About City Growth Luton
