Stages, Elements and Challenges in Airport Development Strategy: London Luton Airport Case Study

This presentation discusses the stages, key elements and challenges involved in airport development strategy using London Luton Airport as a case study. It explores the economic significance, traffic forecasts, environmental challenges and consultation and approval challenges faced by Luton airport in its pursuit of development plan.

Strategic airport Planning and
development
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Contents
INTRODUCTION
Stages in an airport’s development strategy
Key elements in an airport’s development strategy
Challenges in an airport’s development strategy
Current Features of London Luton Airport
Economic Significance
Traffic forecasts underpinning Luton airport’s development plan
Economic growth prospects underpinning Luton airport’s development plan
Key environmental challenges
Consultation and approval challenges that Luton airport will face in it’s pursuit of the chosen
development plan
CONCLUSION
REFERENCES

INTRODUCTION
 When it comes to the most modernized and
preferred ways to travel between locations
both globally and domestically, air travel is
by far the most popular in the world
 Luton airport is a 28 miles long
international airport located in the east side
of the Luton town Centre area of London
in UK

Stages in an airport’s development
strategy
 Analysis of existing situation
 Developing standards for expansion
planning and evaluating facility
requirements
 Making a detailed expansion master plan

Key elements in an airport’s
development strategy
 Land use plan
 The MPPA plan
 Traffic forecast and economic impact

Challenges in an airport’s development
strategy
 Financial constraints
 Dependence on forecasting being accurate
 Long approval and regulation process

Current Features of London Luton
Airport
 Currently the airport has one central terminal
which is where major airline operations takes place
and has 2 buildings on opposite sides with the
entire infrastructure being connected with many
facilities such as waiting lounge, luxurious retail
shops and food eateries

Economic Significance
 The airport is a major economic power
behind the region of Luton and the broader
economy of UK as it is responsible for
supporting approximately 27000 jobs
 It is the 5th busiest airport in the whole
world

Traffic forecasts underpinning
Luton airport’s development plan
 The current short term goal of increasing the
service to 19 MPPA from 18 has been delayed to
2024 by conducting traffic forecast levels that
were observed pre-pandemic to those they are
seeing now in the post-pandemic days
 The traffic forecasting which is underpinning the
current development plans also involve heavy
emphasis on annual aircraft movement

Economic growth prospects
underpinning Luton airport’s
development plan
 The government of UK supports the aviation
sector as it has a large contributing towards the
nation’s GDP and as long as the damage to local
people and environment is kept at bare minimum
 Through this expansion, Luton wants to have an
even bigger impact on UK’s job market by
bringing in around 4500 new jobs around the
airport itself

Key environmental challenges
 The future of London Luton airport hinges on
the fact that it needs to walk the talk regarding
its commitment to a greener world and causing
as little environmental harm as possible as
despite its expansion plans getting the
government approval in 2021, they were put on
hold during the last days of the year

Consultation and approval
challenges that Luton airport will
face in it’s pursuit of the chosen
development plan
 The road ahead is definitely tough for London
Luton airport as it will need multiple approvals
from a host of different authorities and
establishments operating within the airline and
airport industry in the UK which are numerous

CONCLUSION
 The above concluded presentation went into
detail regarding the numerous complex
dimensions and activities that are involved in
the development and expansion plans of
airports to highlight the intricate details about
the strategic formulation and considerations
needed to undertake large projects with great
investment

REFERENCES
 Budd, L. and Ison, S., 2021. Public utility or private asset? The evolution of UK
airport ownership. Case Studies on Transport Policy, 9(1), pp.212-218.
 Efthymiou, M., 2020. Air traffic control policy framework advancements vis-à-vis
regional airports. In Air Transport and Regional Development Policies (pp. 81-
100). Routledge.