London Stansted Airport
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The London Stansted Airport (IATA: STN, ICAO: EGSS; engl: London Stansted Airport. ) Is an airport located in the metropolitan area of the British capital London. The Manchester Airports Group, operated by the airport is located about 55 km northeast of the city center and in 2010 produced over 18 million travelers from. He also serves as the basis of the largest low-cost airline Ryanair, which operated from here over 100 destinations.
History
The Stansted airport was taken in 1942 as RAF Stansted Mountfitchet station by the Royal Air Force in operation. Even right after the war, there were plans to expand Stansted third major London airport, but the plans were not realized, as we saw no need for this. Instead, Stansted was for another purpose completely rebuilt in the 1970s by the British authorities, the fight against terrorism. In the north of the airport this special parking areas and other facilities were built. Overall, since six hijackings in Stansted ended. Many machines were diverted to bomb threats to Stansted, last only three aircraft in 2004. Due to this role as Europe's primary counter-terrorism airport passenger traffic played a relatively minor role until the 1990s. In the simple check-in area in the northwest of the airport predominantly holiday flights were handled.
Due to the congestion of both Heathrow and Gatwick, it was decided to expand Stansted for the third London airport and opened in 1991, built according to the plans of the architectural firm Foster & Partners new terminal in the southeast of the airport. The building was in 1990 awarded the Mies van der Rohe Award for European Architecture. The furnished by Network South East Stansted Express rail link is required from the station under the airport to London Liverpool Street about 48 minutes and is slightly faster than the subway to Heathrow. Also the terminal at Stansted is more modern than at Heathrow. Nevertheless, the regional airline Air UK regional connections to UK destinations and European cities until the mid -1990s, the only major provider of scheduled flights, mostly.
Ryanair is already present at the airport since 1991, but offers only since 1997 Cheap flights to mainland Europe within a few years and was the largest airline in Stansted. Meanwhile the airport to the European hub for budget airlines has grown.
According to the principle decisions of the British government in December 2003 on the development of aviation in the next 30 years a second airstrip was planned, the exact length and location had not been finalized. There are three possible variants were tested. On 24 May 2010, the airport operator, however, announced not to pursue plans for a new start and runway. This is due to the rejection of the expansion plans by the new Conservative-Liberal British government.
Due to the continuous changes of the geomagnetic field the identifier of the still single start and runway of the airport in 2009 was changed from "05 /23 " in " 04 /22".
In January 2013, the airport for about 1.8 billion euros from Heathrow Airport Holdings Limited (formerly BAA ) was sold to the Manchester Airports Group.
Location and Transport
Stansted Airport is located in the county of Essex 55 km northeast of London and has a road and rail links.
About the M11 motorway, the airport is directly connected to London and Cambridge.
The Stansted Express connects the airport in 15 -minute intervals with the Liverpool Street station in London, the journey takes about 50 minutes. There is also the option of switching in Tottenham Hale in the London Underground. Further rail connections are available with Abellio Greater Anglia to Cambridge as well as Cross Country to Birmingham and Leicester.
Three bus companies connect London Stansted with different endpoints in the City of London:
- Terra Vision connects the airport in 55-70 minutes to Liverpool Street Station and 75-90 minutes to the Victoria Station.
- National Express runs on the Metro Station Baker Street in 85-100 minutes also to the railway station as well as Victoria line A9 45-55 minutes to Stratford Station, London, where connections to the Central & Jubilee Line of the London Underground, London Overground, DLR, as well as various bus and train services, including the Southeastern high-speed connections are made.
- EasyBus moves in 75 minutes to Baker Street Underground Station.
Furthermore, there are bus services to Birmingham, Bishop's Stortford, Braintree, Brighton, Cambridge, Chelmsford, Colchester, Harlow, Ipswich, Leicester, Norwich, Nottingham, Oxford, Rayleigh, Saffron Walden, Southend and Thetford and to Heathrow, Gatwick and Luton.
Terminal building
The airport currently has one terminal which is connected to three largely identical satellites buildings. In these there are a total of 67 gates ( 1-39, 40-59 and 81-88 ), which are partly equipped with passenger boarding bridges. The satellite with Piers 40-59 and 81-88 are within walking distance from the terminal, the satellite with Piers 1-39 is connected via an automated people movers. North of the terminals is, parallel to the existing satellites, building area planned for another.
Airlines and destinations
The London Stansted Airport is used mainly by low cost airlines and charter airlines and serves as a hub for Ryanair ( their largest base here has ) and easyJet and cargo airlines Volga-Dnepr Airlines and FedEx. He has numerous connections to European cities and holiday destinations, including Amsterdam, Barcelona, Prague, Istanbul, Stockholm, Tenerife, Ibiza and Rhodes.
The only long-distance offered last AirAsia X to Kuala Lumpur, which is misplaced by 24 October 2011 to Gatwick Airport.
From the German-speaking countries Stansted by Ryanair from Berlin- Schönefeld, Bremen, Frankfurt -Hahn, Karlsruhe / Baden -Baden, Leipzig / Halle, Leipzig, Nuremberg, Weeze, Graz, Klagenfurt, Linz and Salzburg, Air Berlin from Dusseldorf, from easyJet fly from Munich and from German wings from Cologne / Bonn, Hanover and Stuttgart. UPS Airlines leads through cargo flights from Cologne / Bonn. In the past, Stansted Air Berlin operated from more targets that were partially adjusted (eg the connection to Munich ) or Gatwick Airport south of London (eg installed the connection to Nuremberg ).
Trivia
Part of series Come Fly with Me was filmed at Stansted.