The airport is connected to the British capital via rail or the M1 motorway. LOCATION AND CONNECTIONS: Luton Airport is located in the county of Bedfordshire, about 48 km from the center of London, and just over 2 km from the city of Luton. In the mid-1960s, Luton Airport began to carry out private flights and, shortly after, the first charter flights. HISTORY: Inagurated in 1938, it was used as a military base during the Second World War from which the Royal Air Force and the USAF aircrafts took off.
Despite this, the airport also hosts a limited number of both chartered and scheduled flights to destinations in North Africa and Asia.
The airport has a single terminal and is used mainly by low-cost airlines (easyJet, Wizzair, Ryanair, TUI, etc.) that operate routes to European destinations.
Luton Airport, like Stansted Airport, has only one runway (Heathrow and Gatwick have both 2) and in 2017 the number of passengers in transit increased, reaching almost 16 million. Luton Airport is considered the seventh largest airport in the United Kingdom, and the fourth of the six airports in London in terms of traffic after Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted.
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