14 airport overview london luton is the fourth largest of s airports offering flights to major european destinations for passengers from south east midlands and england provides scheduled leisure charter passenger air cargo business aviation services general aircraft maintenance flight catering hotels travel agent in 2004 26 1 million tonnes 7 5 were handled capacity planned increase serve 10 per year employer hugely important city economic well being employing over 8 000 people it effectively jobs all lutonians these occur a variety fields supporting necessary functions required support increasing demands modern airlines industries growth area there are 660 businesses involved related activities this covers 18 providing employment 6 017 number employees by on source caa statistics lla
