Luton Airport’s DART train to launch on 10th March

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• His Holyness says:

  25 Feb25 February 03:22

  Rip off Britain

• r* says:

  25 Feb25 February 04:43

  So its gone from needing a seperate ticket for the bus to needing a seperate ticket for the monorail, except now instead of it being 3.60 return its 9.80 🙂

  What will the frequency be?

• northernline says:

  25 Feb25 February 04:48

  Such a shame that the shuttle will continue to incur an excess fee. £4.90 is a total ripoff and stinks of the JFK AirTrain $8 scam.
  Currently, buying your train ticket to “Luton Airport” doesn’t actually represent any discount – the single fare is just £2.40 more than the ticket to Parkway, the same as the shuttle bus fare. I’d be interested to see if the fares increase in line with the new DART fare.
  Luton airport is unique as it’s wholly owned by Luton Borough Council, rather than central government or private investors, and since the council loaned them hundreds of millions of pounds during the pandemic, I guess the black hole in their budget needs to be filled somehow.

• Elash Morjaria says:

  25 Feb25 February 05:47

  Will it still be cheaper to use contactless payment from a Thameslink station in London to Luton airport?

• SydneySwan says:

  25 Feb25 February 06:02

  Ridiculous price!

  • John says:

    25 Feb25 February 09:19

    Sydney trains to the airport are a ridiculous price

    • G says:

      25 Feb25 February 21:32

      Just get an uber. Cheaper in most cases, or walk.

• Alex Sm says:

  25 Feb25 February 06:28

  If the weather is good and you travel light, you can easily walk 15-20 mins from the station to the airport. Saves money and helps to achieve your daily steps as well. My partner and I often do this

  • Thywillbedone says:

    25 Feb25 February 06:52

    Dragging a bag along a noisy, highly congested and polluted road in pursuit of good health? No thanks.

    • The Savage Squirrel says:

      25 Feb25 February 07:13

      “I’d walk that” was my first thought on reading too, to be honest, if I just had a single bag. Maybe not with full family holiday clobber of course 😀
      I like walking generally in life though; you see more stuff.

      If you live in London then it’ll be less polluted that the air you breathe every other day.
      The walk is along the road with all the hotels on it, not the A-road. There’s a concrete barrier between the road and path, so it is neither noisy nor congested, nor unsafe.

    • Mike says:

      25 Feb25 February 07:48

      It’s also pretty much uphill all the way from the station to the airport.
      Downhill coming back

      • Thywillbedone says:

        25 Feb25 February 11:49

        Uphill both ways by my estimation …

• Lou says:

  25 Feb25 February 06:32

  That’s pricy… Occasionally when I fly from Luton, I’ll park at the station carpark and then get the shuttle bus to the airport. The monorail charge makes the airport carpark worth looking into

• IanG says:

  25 Feb25 February 06:47

  They’re also looking for volunteers to come and help them test it. You have to sign up here: https://subscribepage.io/XL9GMZ

  • ADS says:

    25 Feb25 February 11:27

    it would be quite handy if the trial timing worked with a flight !

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