If you have luck with the timings (i.e. bus departs just after you get onto it) then yes, it's possible. If not, you'll be delayed by another 5-10 minutes at most (at least in my experience). Obviously this is not as simple as the situation at Gatwick, but that has its own complications again.
Well airport yes, they definitely wanted it. Southern resisted until the revenue risk was with the DfT.
Well the problem is where do you draw the line. I'd have been happier for Reigate to have been included as a station served by Southern services. If it had though, what about Nutfield or Godstone? One thing I can be certain of is that the number of people caught out by Reigate is minuscule compared to the number who would have been caught out at all the other stations if it had been Express only. And that's before you consider whether it would have been possible to use Oyster on the sometimes slightly faster Southern trains using the same tracks as the express but calling at CLJ and ECR.
Well no, but you are within the airport on the shuttle thingy between the terminals. I was countering the difference between Luton with slightly faster trains but not actually the airport and Gatwick which is as good as within the airport itself.
£8.00 compared to £14.70
Gatwick has many more full-service airlines and serves many more important destinations than Luton, which is primarily for low-cost carriers and locals. Gatwick is also substantially busier, with more important customers. The two are not really comparable.
Yes, I was not disputing that Gatwick is a more important airport, but rather the assertion that Luton is not as near (distance or timewise) to central London, when in fact the distance and time are quite similar.
