Yet long before there was a London City Airport, years before the term LCC had ever been coined, Luton Airport was the departure point of choice for leisure travellers who wanted to avoid the cost and congestion of Heathrow and Gatwick. Some 35mi (56km) north of central London, and directly off the Ml-Britain's busiest north-south motorway-Luton (IATA: LTN; Airways, June 2004) has evolved into serving a mix of corporate, leisure, low-cost, and traditional scheduled passengers unlike any other London airport. And uniquely among the six London-area airports, it is owned by a local municipal council (Southend was sold by the borough council in 1993).
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