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London Luton airport began life as an aerodrome opened in 1938 as the Luton Municipal Airport by the Rt Hon. Kingsley Wood, Secretary of State for Air. With the onset of World War II the airport was still used for commercial flights as well as a base for 264 Fighter Squadron and was an important site for the Percival Aircraft Company, to enable the development and manufacture of the balsa wood wonder, the Mosquito fighter bomber, which was build under licence from the De Havilland Aircraft Company.

AFter the war in 1952 the airport was redeveloped completely to introduce a modern control tower. The airport’s passenger numbers increased dramatically with the coming of inexpensive package holidays to Spain and other European destinations in the early 1960′s. In 1962, the newly formed Euravia, opened the doors to UK cheap travel. Two years later the airline changed the name to Britannia Airways. Britannia Airways was successful and reformed itself in 2004 to become Thomsonfly.

As Britannia Airways was growing using Luton, Monarch Airlines also established a base at Luton. Real growth began in 1986 when Monarch Crown Service created by Monarch Airlines and started to charter scheduled flights to Spain and later Ryanair a new airline emerged and offered flights to Ireland. Luton was fast becoming an international airport and altered its name therefore to “Luton International Airport.”

More development came in the early 90′s when Ryanair began to offer cheap scheduled flights to Europe and other no thrills airlines like EasyJet followed suit in the mid 90′s. This all assisted a boost in passenger figures and helped make Luton airport the fastest growing airport measured in both flight and passenger numbers in the last 20 years.

London Luton Airport is the UK’s busiest airport with over 9.94 million passengers every year, and London Luton Airport motorhome hire is no exception, proving popular with visitors from across the globe.

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