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: 17.5 million (March 2013)
- 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 150
- 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
- £50 million extension to terminal building completed 2008
- Economic contribution: £400 million a year
- Employs: 10,200 (1,316 are Stansted Airport Ltd employees)
- Cargo: Over 214,000 tonnes of air cargo (12 months to end December 2012)
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
