Minister gives go-ahead to Luton airport expansion despite advice to reject plan - Luton was the UK’s fifth busiest airport last year, with 16.9 million passengers travelling on 132,000 flights.

It will be open seven days a week serving rail passengers travelling on their journeys to and from Luton Airport ... to the community through the Luton DART.” ...

People scoffed at the £4.90 price tag, but a combined train-plus-Dart ticket from London St Pancras, booked in advance, starts from £7.90. Quick connections with the M1 also make Luton the most ...

Luton airport’s expansion plan has been approved ... It would also require extending the Dart rail link to the second terminal, as well as new taxiways – which connect runways to terminals ...