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

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• Ryan C says:

  25 Feb25 February 11:52

  £16.50 return, for a family of four who have a family railcard from London St Pancras to Luton Airport including DART connection. Four quid each….

  Really…..

  I cannot understand why there are so many negative comments on this article.

  • dougzz99 says:

    25 Feb25 February 12:18

    Exactly, focusing on the walk-up no effort fare makes little sense to the price conscious. I paid £3.65 for Heathrow Express use last December.

• RussellH says:

  25 Feb25 February 13:04

  > It will be free for anyone who holds a concessionary bus pass.

  That is us sorted then, should we ever want to use LUT, which is not that far away, but inaccessible by public transport.

  Only flown from there once before, Cityflyer to CDG on avios, which is not going to happen again.

• T says:

  25 Feb25 February 17:39

  Seems to be that travellers will pay for the incompetence of a council tender and management of a project. 300million for a tiny non railway. Jokes

• Erico1875 says:

  25 Feb25 February 21:01

  I’m sure we paid about 50p for the metro between Sofia airport to city centre.
  Also Malaga airport to end of line Fuengirola is only about 3 Euro.

• G says:

  25 Feb25 February 21:31

  4.90 for a tiny offshort train to an overcrowded airport?

  No thanks.

• x2000traveller says:

  26 Feb26 February 11:33

  True, air passengers should pay some of the cost involved. But they weren’t part of the decision that led to spending £300m for a rail link just over 1 mile long, that uses cable technology from Switzerland! (There must have been cheaper options, electric buses from the current stops every 4 minutes instead?)

• Dave Gittins says:

  26 Feb26 February 17:16

  Just travelled from Nice Airport to the SNCF Station and it’s free (thetram teavels on into the city but you have to pay for that.

  Now in Genoa and the underground Metro tram is free from 10.00 – 16.00 to boost tourism.

• Lady London says:

  26 Feb26 February 21:14

  I’ll be very, very interested to see if this funicular line (is that what it is?) will stay open in bad weather, ice, storms and potential mudslides.

  TGLoyalty got it right – this line should gave gone through to the airport – Parkway Station should have been opposite the terminal building.

  That would have given Luton Airport some class.

  • Londonsteve says:

    27 Feb27 February 12:33

    Considering it’s built by Doppelmayer who spend most of their time making funicular railways for the Alps, I doubt bad weather will cause it much concern. Part of the reason for choosing a cable solution will have been the generally steep incline it has to ascend in just over a mile, presenting traction difficulties if power is sent to the wheels.

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