Stansted (standstill) can be frustrating, but the trick if dropping off or parking is to go to th medium term carpark, Free for 1 hour, or £2 for 2 hours..

We also have southend as an alternative and that is superb!

Just hope it doesn't become a victim of its own success.

Certainly it's correct to say a lot of the problems are due to geography. As far as I know, there are no firm plans for a rail link. The steepness of the hill means a conventional railway is probably not feasible.

Well, use an unconventional one, like the Swiss do. Jeez - why is this country so backwards nowadays?

My already low opinion of Luton airport was "cemented" many years ago when I went for a day trip to somewhere in Europe, can't remember where.

I was quite pleased to find a parking space space bang next to bus shelter at stop C3, so I left the car there knowing it would be easy to find.

On my return only 14-15 hours later I got off the bus at stop C3. No sign of the car. ANother chap was having a similar problem. What were the chances that both of our cars had been stolen?

Then I noticed fresh concrete surrounding the legs of the bus shelter. They had only moved the bus stop about 200 yards since I had left the car there that morning.

Luton Airport is our local and as such I probably know it as well as anyone - we use it several times a year.

The drop-off zone is indeed a pain - not well-designed, but made worse by people stopping in the wrong places. It is indeed further from the departures entrance than its previous location. Apparently it's temporary; eventually it will be situated underground, though exactly where I've no idea.

Inside the terminal is no better or worse than most UK airports in my opinion - they are all like overcrowded cattle barns to me.

I feel a bit sorry for Luton Airport. The problems of access are mainly to do with geography - the fact that it's at the top of a steepish hill - and there's therefore a limit on how much road traffic you can get in and out of the place and also a limit on how much on-site parking there can be. However, expansion plans are in progress - considerable increases in the number of flights; one might question whether that it wise.

Some improvement in access can be expected when the new rail link opens. Then it will be possible to drop passengers off near the present Luton Parkway Station and the shuttle bus that links the terminal with Luton Parkway will cease.

At present we keep our blood pressure down by arriving in good time and the use of either public transport or taxi or a lift, and by being prepared for a long wait after arriving, but before our flight.

P.S. I realise a lot of this restates an earlier post I made. The significant difference is that the rail link is now under construction.

Edited by FP on 24/05/2019 at 18:31