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Luton welcomes LEVEL Airlines and prepares for busiest Easter to date
London Luton Airport (LLA) has welcomed a new airline, LEVEL, which began operating flights to Amsterdam over the weekend.
LEVEL Airlines, which is owned by IAG Group, will fly from LLA to Amsterdam six days a week.
LEVEL’s sister airline, Vueling, will continue to operate eight weekly flights to the city.
Amsterdam is currently LLA’s most popular destination and is also served by easyJet.
In March 2019, over 72,000 passengers flew from LLA to the Dutch capital.
IAG has steadily increased its presence at LLA since its Vueling airline began its first flights from the airport in 2016. This year, LEVEL expects more than 50,000 passengers to travel with the airline from LLA.
Meanwhile, Luton Airport experienced its busiest-ever March as 1.3 million passengers travelled through, a 10.4% increase on March 2018.
Following the record month in March, April will mark the first time the airport serves 17 million passengers in a 12 month period. The milestone coincides with LLA’s busiest Easter weekend, with 58,048 passengers expected to use the airport on April 18 alone.
Popular destinations over the Easter period will include Warsaw and Barcelona, which are expected to overtake Geneva and Tel Aviv to enter the top five alongside Budapest, Bucharest and Amsterdam.
The addition of more flights by Wizz Air to Warsaw and a recently-introduced new route to Barcelona operated by Ryanair helped to encourage growth to these cities.
Lisa
Lisa joined Travel Weekly nearly 25 years ago as technology reporter and then sailed around the world for a couple of years as cruise correspondent, before becoming deputy editor. Now freelance, Lisa writes for various print and web publications, edits Corporate Traveller’s client magazine, Gateway, and works on the acclaimed Remembering Wildlife series of photography books, which raise awareness of nature’s most at-risk species and helps to fund their protection.
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