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: 18.3 million (Aug 2011)
- Third-busiest airport in London; fourth-busiest in the UK
Airlines and aircraft movements
- Airlines: 13
- Average aircraft movements per day: 550
- Destinations: over 150
- Countries served: 31
Facilities
- Number of runways: 1
- Runway length: 3048m long by 46m wide
- Total retail space: 11,000 sqm
- Check-in capacity: 127 check-in desks
- Car parking spaces: 26,750
- Number of aircraft parking stands: 107
- Rail link to central London: Stansted Express, 45 minutes to London.
- 49% of passengers use public transport to travel to and from the airport (CAA data)
Investment
- £50 million extension to terminal building completed 2008
- Economic contribution: £400 million a year
- Employs: 10,200 (1,420 are BAA Stansted employees)
- Cargo: Over 204,000 tonnes of air cargo (12 months to end March 2011)
Environment
- Only UK airport to hold ISO14001 and OHSAS18001 standards
- Awarded Carbon Trust Standard
- Biomass boiler installed as part of £50million terminal extension, making development carbon neutral
- 54.8% of total airport waste was re-cycled in 2010.
- Targets: 0% to landfill by 2015 and 70% of waste recycled by 2020
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
