Or ... you could use 'meet and greet' which I used in Manchester the other week.

Drop off car, hand over keys, ealk for 2 minutes into T2. On return clear passport control, get luggage (7am arrival, so only 20 minutes from getting out of my seat to walking out of the terminal) 2 min walk back to the car, get in and drive. Cost £70. Other and far cheaper parking facilities are available. (I live 60 miles from Manchester airport, so taxi would be very expensive)

No airports have taxi ranks for waiting for pickups - far too easy for someone to 'fake-plate' or steal a taxi, load it up with 200kg of chemicals and a load of nails, and you've got one hell of a bomb.

Edited by RobJP on 13/10/2016 at 14:54

You're making a mountain out of a molehill.

On return, get off the plane, through passport control and baggage reclaim. All of these take unpredictable times. Wait until you've got your stuff and only then phone for a taxi, asking them to pick you up at the drop-off point. It will take you about five to ten minutes to walk there, by which point the taxi will either have arrived or will shortly do so. That way your drop-off charge is only (!) £3. That's what we do, anyway.

I agree the traffic/parking/drop-off arrangements at Luton Airport are appalling. When Junction 10 (M1) was recently upgraded one of the intentions behind it was to get traffic off the motorway and into the airport faster, but that has simply pushed the traffic problem nearer the airport itself.

At the moment things are exacerbated by a new remodelling of the traffic flow and new parking at the airport, but I fear that limitations of space mean the improvements will be minimal.

Edited by nick62 on 13/10/2016 at 17:15