Stansted at a glance
Stansted is London’s third-busiest airport and the main home of the leading low-cost scheduled airlines. It’s owned by BAA, the world's leading airport company, which also owns Heathrow, Southampton, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen airports.
Operating hours: 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
Opened: 1991 on site of former airport
Runways: One
Terminals: One
Airlines: 20
Destinations: over 140
Countries served: 31
Air transport movements per year: Over 177,000 a year
Passengers per year: c.19.0 million
Passenger profile: AB: 39%; C1: 43%; C2: 12%; DE: 6%
Total retail space: 10,000m²
Rail link: Stansted Express, 47 minutes to London.
Employs: over 10,500 (c.1,350 are London Stansted employees)
Air cargo per year: 192,000 tonnes
Status: Third busiest airport in London with more scheduled destinations throughout Europe than any other airport in the World
