• 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
• Night quota restrictions apply during period 23:30 - 06:00

• Passengers per year: 19.9 million (end 2009)
• Third busiest airport in the UK

• Airlines: 18
• Total aircraft movements per year: over 155,000 (end 2009) 
• Destinations: over 150
• Countries served: 32
• Aircraft types: Boeing 737-300/500/600/700/800, Airbus 319/320/321/A300
• Latest airlines and destinations: Dalaman (Turkey) - easyJet; Fuerteventura (Spain) - Ryanair; Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) - AirAsiaX.

• 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: 114
• Rail link to central London: Stansted Express, 45 minutes to London.
• 49.6% of passengers use public transport to travel to and from the airport (2009) 

• £50 million extension to terminal building completed 2008
• Economic contribution: £400 million a year
• Employs: 11,000 (1,300 are BAA Stansted employees)
• Cargo: Over 180,000 tonnes of air cargo per year (end 2009)

• Only UK airport to hold ISO14001 and OHSAS18001 standards
• Biomass boiler installed as part of £50million terminal extension, making development carbon neutral
• 50% of total airport waste to be re-cycled by 2010.  0% to landfill by 2015.

Top international destinations (in order)

• Dublin
• Alicante (Spain)
• Rome (Ciampino)

Top UK destinations (in order)

• Edinburgh 
• Glasgow 
• Prestwick

Most popular country

• Spain

Opened: 1991 on site of former airport

Owned and operated by: BAA

Managing Director: David Johnston

Stansted location map (PDF format)

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