Airport News
Luton Airport easyJet flights to be cut
Tue, 08 Sep, 2009
Passengers booking cheap flights abroad may have to consider flying with a different airline after easyJet's decision to cut a number of its services.
The cheap flights carrier is axing 240 flights from its main base at Luton, while East Midlands Airport will lose 120 services.
It is still unknown exactly which flights will be cancelled - with these due to be announced at the resolution of a 90-day consultation period with unions.
Kevin Hall, regional industrial organiser for Unite, said that the airline wasn't "getting rid of any aircraft".
"When you talk to easyJet and they talk about a 20 per cent reduction in their flight capacity out of Luton, they're not going to get rid of any aircraft, they're just going to move their aircraft into another airport," he commented.
Earlier this summer, easyJet launched a third aircraft at Manchester, allowing it to operate services to Corfu, Athens, Dalaman and the Corsican destination of Bastia.