Indeed, once Luton is all finished in 2021 it should be awesome. I do like approaching the airport by road and occasionally if you're lucky you'll get a plane taxi-ing over where the road dips under. I hope I'm not the only one who finds that interesting, if only for the fact it really feels like you're arriving at an airport.
When construction of the Luton Dart is completed, and it looks like it has been quite a big job so far from the works I saw being done earlier this month, it should be much better. I'll certainly be more tempted to arrive by rail when it opens!
When you re-watch old episodes of Airline and you see what was Luton and what it is now, the difference is huge. I still like Luton for the short taxi-ing, which is so much better than at Heathrow where it feels like half of the flight is taxi-ing to/from the runway!
In short, I like Luton and it is one of my favourite airports.
This morning I have finally finished typing up my list of flights taken so far, yesterday I got the details all into my notebook which took a fair while. Also added them all to FLIO, love that app, and the next task later is to create another file on my phone where the flights are organised by registration. Then it's creating a list of craft types and the mileage flown on each sort, so plenty to do today! However I am able to share my most important stats so far, and for a part-time aviation nut I'm quite pleased with them, and this is since 29th March 2012:
Total mileage: 64,646
Number of flights: 61
Airports visited: 42
Countries visited: 20
The countries count doesn't include France, Portugal, Germany, Greece or Latvia as I've either never flown into/out of them or the flights were in the distant past with no knowledge of dates etc. Even so, I'm pretty happy with those numbers. I'll be a little over 75,000 miles by my rough estimation when I return from Tokyo, considering 2014's flights were simply Stansted to Vasteras and back, and a fair few of my flights have been short ones (less than 500 miles), I'm happy with that. Very high chance I'll clear 100,000 miles during 2020 as well, but we'll see what happens there!