Luton airport flights to Rotterdam

[September 10th 2008]

New flights to Rotterdam from Luton airport will start on October, 27 with Dutch airline transavia.com.

There will be flights twice a day, at times which will enable business travellers to enjoy a full business day at their destination. As well as being conveniently located for the city of Rotterdam and its world famous port, Rotterdam airport is also only 20 minutes by taxi from political centre of The Hague and the holiday hotspot of Delft.

“With our low fares and modern fleet of Boeing 737 aircraft we are very confident that this new Rotterdam service will be a great success. London Luton Airport provides the ideal gateway for our London market enabling us to offer our low-cost product,” comments transavia.com business development manager, Arian van der Werff.

Marketing director at London Luton airport, Natalie Raper, says: “We are delighted to announce the arrival of transavia.com to our portfolio of carriers. Low fares flying continues to make business and leisure travel an increasingly viable option for millions of Europeans and the arrival of this new service to Rotterdam demonstrates the confidence our airline partners and customers have in us".

transavia.com's winter flight schedule includes flights to Innsbruck and Salzburg offering access to skiing holiday destinations in the Alps. The airline is also operating winter flights to Bergerac, Montpellier and Faro.

Passenger numbers at Luton airport have increased by nearly 400% over the last decade to over 10 million. More than 95 destinations in Europe, Africa and Asia are now available from the airport, and flights are offered by a wide range of airlines, including easyJet, Ryanair, Wizz Air, Monarch, Thomsonfly, Flybe and Thomas Cook.

Written by: Nick Purdom