People’s increasing reliance on ecommerce during the pandemic, coupled with a reduction in passenger flights, has driven significant growth in air cargo at the Manchester Airports Group (MAG) owned East Midlands and London Stansted airports.
Stansted Airport
London Stansted is London's third-busiest airport, currently serving around 22 million passengers a year. The airport is ideally located in between the global tech and life science hubs of London and Cambridge.
Telephone: 0800 093 7851
Address :
Enterprise House Bassingbourn Road Stansted
Post Code: CM24 1QW
Country: United Kingdom
Website: http://www.stanstedairport.com
Membership Type: Founder Member
Since the acquisition of London Stansted MAG has invested in improving the Terminal building. This investment has included the introduction of premium products like: Meet and Greet Parking, Fast Track security and a new business lounge.
Stansted Facts And Figures
Operating hours
- 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
- Night quota restrictions apply during period 23:30 - 06:00
Passengers statistics
- Passengers per year: 22 million (July, 2015)
- Third-busiest airport in London; fourth-busiest in the UK
Airlines and aircraft movements
- Airlines: 12
- Air Transport Movements: 131,365 a year (March 2013)
- Destinations: over 170
- Countries served: 30
Facilities
- Number of runways: 1
- Runway length: 3048m long by 46m wide
- Total retail space: 10,608 sqm
- Check-in capacity: 125 check-in desks
- Car parking spaces: 25,726
- Number of aircraft parking stands: up to 110
- Rail link to central London: Stansted Express, 47 minutes to London.
- 50% of passengers use public transport to travel to and from the airport (CAA data)
Investment
- £80 million redevelopment of the Terminal building (completed Oct, 2015)
- Economic contribution: £400 million a year
- Employs: 10,200 (1,316 are Stansted Airport Ltd employees)
- Cargo: Over 230,000 tonnes of air cargo (2014/15)
Environment
- First UK airport to hold both ISO14001 and OHSAS18001 standards
- Awarded Carbon Trust Standard
- Biomass boiler installed as part of £50million terminal extension, making development carbon neutral
- 57.2% of total airport waste was re-cycled in 2011.
- Targets: 0% waste direct to landfill and 60% recycled by 2015
Destinations
Top international destinations (in order)
- Dublin
- Alicante (Spain)
- Malaga (Spain)
- Rome (Italy)
Top UK destinations (in order)
- Edinburgh
- Belfast
- Glasgow
Most popular country
- Spain
Opened
- 1991 on site of former airport
Owned and operated by
- Manchester Airports Group
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Steve Griffiths, currently Chief Operating Officer at London Stansted, has been appointed Managing Director of the airport.
28-07-2020
Charities offering a range of support to local residents through the Covid-19 pandemic, including mental health, domestic abuse and tackling social isolation are to benefit from a £50,000 donation by London Stansted Airport.
05-06-2020
Stunning visuals lit up the 63 metre NATS Air Traffic Control tower at London Stansted last Thursday night (May 21) in appreciation to the NHS and key workers.
25-05-2020
London Stansted’s engineering team is using the unprecedented grounding of aircraft across the globe as a unique opportunity to move planned overnight runway maintenance works to daytime hours.
21-04-2020
London Stansted has created its own special tribute to the heroes of the NHS with a giant ‘thank you’ message on its airfield.
17-04-2020
A drive-in coronavirus testing centre is to open at London Stansted as part of the Government’s UK-wide drive to increase testing for thousands more NHS workers.
14-04-2020
As part of the Government’s Airspace Modernisation Programme, London Stansted has begun the process of re-designing the network of corridors and flightpaths that aircraft use when travelling to and from the airport.
05-03-2020
London Stansted will open up the UK’s only direct service to the Senegalese capital, Dakar, from this summer, boosting tourism and trade links for the East of England and London.
26-02-2020
London Stansted Airport has underlined its sustainable transport credentials by outlining plans for new charging points for passengers’ electric vehicles and further investment into facilities that support the airport’s industry-leading levels of public transport usage.
21-02-2020
EL AL Israel Airlines is to return to London Stansted when the carrier launches a new five-times a week service to Tel Aviv Ben Gurion International Airport.
18-02-2020
AnadoluJet, the low-fare arm of flag carrier Turkish Airlines, has announced a new direct flight between London Stansted and Istanbul.
29-01-2020
The Chief Executive of London Stansted has written an open letter to local residents, setting out the airport’s future plans and how they will benefit the region. Ken O’Toole also addressed concerns about the local and environmental impacts of the airport’s proposals, saying “now more than ever we know it is critical to get this right.”
24-01-2020
Two women are blazing a trail at London Stansted after becoming the first female firefighters to join the ranks of the airport’s fire and rescue service.
22-01-2020
Trade and tourism industries across the East of England and London are set to receive a major boost from the launch of a new Air India service between London Stansted and India’s economic hub Mumbai next month.
17-01-2020
London Stansted Airport has outlined its plans to invest £35 million over the next eight years to help ensure that Uttlesford remains one of the best places in the UK to live, work and do business.
10-01-2020
London Stansted’s first ever scheduled flight to Moscow took to the skies last week with the launch of a new direct service by Russian carrier Ural Airlines.
27-12-2019
More than 1.2 million passengers are expected to travel to and from one of London Stansted’s 200 destinations over the Christmas and New Year period (Dec 19 – Jan 5).
18-12-2019
London Stansted’s first ever Biodiversity Week in March this year, which saw the airport hand out 3,000 silver birch trees to staff, has won gold at the prestigious Green Apple Awards for environmental best practice.
12-12-2019
More than 200 senior officials from the aviation industry will descend on London Stansted next year for the 2020 CAPA World Aviation Outlook Summit.
11-12-2019
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