Stansted Airport Information

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London Stansted Airport

History :

When Stansted Airport came about during WWII, it was first used as a USAAF bomber base, in 1942. When it joined the holiday package phase in the 1960's, it grew to become London's third biggest airport.

Development that was intended for the airport was strongly protested against by the community and these plans were soon abandoned by the government. However, when the world came into oil crisis, other airport options became too expensive and the development was given the go ahead.

The growing airport was bought out by British Airports Authority and development and extensions took place from 1969 to 972. Another expansion took place in 1984 to accommodate a larger number of passengers and a new terminal opened in 1991. Plans are in the midst to extend the airport to accommodate 35 millions passengers a year.

Passengers :

The UK's fourth largest airport sees 23.5 million passengers each year.

Airlines :

• Air Berlin
• Air Italy
• Air Malta
• Air Moldova
• Atlantic Airways
• Atlasjet
• Aurigny Air Services
• Albanian Airlines
• Blue 1
• Centralwings
• Czech Airlines
• Cyprus Airways
• Cyprus Turkish Airways
• Eos Airlines
• Fly Gibraltar
• Flyglobespan
• germanwings
• Iceland Express
• Israir
• MAXjet Airways
• Nordic Regional
• Norwegian Air Shuttle
• Royal Bengal Airlines
• Ryanair
• SkyEurope
• SunExpress
• transavia.com
• Turkish Airlines
• Wizz Air

Getting there :

Train - Stansted Express is the fast and convenient way to Stansted Airport from central London (London Liverpool Street), with trains departing every 15 minutes with an average journey time of 45 minutes. An hourly off peak service connects Stansted Airport to all principal stations along the Lea Valley to London Stratford, stopping at Stansted Mountfitchet, Bishops Stortford, Sawbridgeworth, Harlow Mill, Harlow Town, Roydon, Broxbourne, Cheshunt, Enfield Lock, Angel Road, Northumberland Park, Tottenham Hale and Stratford. This service operates Monday to Saturday only.

Bus - The coach station is located between the Red and Blue short stay car parks and can be accessed from the terminal building. National Express, Terravision and easyBus are the main transporters from the airport to Central London.

Car - London Stansted Airport is conveniently situated just off the M11 - from London use Junction 8a or from Cambridge use Junction 8 and simply follow the signs on the roundabout for Stansted.

Facilities :

Cash machines, currency exchange, internet access, lounges, car hire, bars, restaurants and shopping.

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