London Stansted was filled with the sights and sounds of India yesterday (Thursday) as a dazzling Bollywood dance troupe greeted passengers to celebrate the inaugural Air India flight to Amritsar.
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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01-11-2019
London Stansted is set to become the first airport in the world to convert all its coffee grounds to solid biofuels after a successful trial with Cambridgeshire-based bio-bean, the world’s largest recycler of coffee grounds.
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The first ever scheduled flights to India from London Stansted will take off later this month with the launch of Air India’s three-times a week service to Amritsar in the north west of the country.
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30-09-2019
Stansted Airport College – the first purpose built further education college at a UK airport – has marked the start of the new school year by unveiling ambitious plans for the future of the facility.
19-09-2019
Passengers using London Stansted this summer will benefit from a new and improved check-in area thanks to the completion of the latest terminal upgrade as part of the airport’s ongoing transformation project.
16-07-2019
London Stansted saw over 2.65 million passengers pass through its doors in June, the highest total for the month on record at the airport.
11-07-2019
London Stansted has officially opened its first multi-storey car park, the latest phase in its transformation project.
09-07-2019
London Stansted welcomed more than 2.57 million passengers in May to help the airport reach a new record annual total as over 28.47 million passengers passed through its doors, an increase of 7.3% on the previous 12 months.
12-06-2019
London Stansted Airport saw its busiest April on record as it welcomed nearly 2.4 million passengers through its doors.
07-05-2019
How often do you travel for business, and where are the most important destinations? London Stansted Airport is interested in finding out more about the priorities for Eastern region companies so it can assess the demand for corporate travel and understand how best to focus its efforts in securing new routes.
16-04-2019
London Stansted welcomed 2.11 million passengers to the airport in March, up 6.1 per cent on the same month in 2018.
12-04-2019
London Stansted is recruiting hundreds of new staff and investing significantly in new facilities and service improvements as the airport gets set for another record-breaking summer season.
26-03-2019
London Stansted Airport is handing out more than 3000 silver birch saplings from this week, to celebrate its Biodiversity Week (18-22 March) and highlight some of the environmental work which happens year-round.
19-03-2019
London Stansted saw over 1.87 million passengers pass through the airport in February, an increase of 8.2 per cent over the same month in 2018.
14-03-2019
Emirates has announced the launch of a second daily flight from Dubai (DXB) to London Stansted (STN) starting 1 July, 2019.
13-03-2019
London Stansted Airport has revealed stylish new passenger seating and created three brand new seating areas in its busy Departure Lounge, which has increased capacity by 40 per cent.
22-02-2019
London Stansted’s strong passenger growth of 2018 continued into the new year as a record breaking 1.9 million passengers passed through the terminal during its busiest ever January, an increase of 7.3 per cent over the same month last year.
13-02-2019
London Stansted Airport recorded its busiest ever year as it welcomed over 28 million passengers in 2018, an increase of 2.1 million passengers and 8.1 per cent over the previous 12 months.
16-01-2019
London Stansted, which has appointed Mace as the main contractor for the construction of its new £150 million arrivals terminal, has created a fly-through animation to show what the airport's transformation will eventually look like.
11-01-2019
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