Stansted Airport Taxis

There might be more instances of long queues at Stansted Airport in the weeks ahead as border control staff plan more strikes this year. The UK Border Force are just one of many groups of UK civil servants taking industrial action against the Governements recently announced pension reforms. The strike  [ Read More ]

Ryanair, Europe’s largest airline, has announced that this weekend it will sell 1 million seats at fares from just £10.99. The “inclusive” all in low fares will include every European route with the one condition that they must be booked on www.ryanair.com before midnight (24:00hrs) Mon 7 May. This latest  [ Read More ]

London Stansted Airport has been named by passengers as the globes leading low cost airport at the recent World Airport Awards 2012 as held at the Passenger Terminal EXPO in Vienna. The results of the awards are based on 12 million passenger surveys completed over a 10-month survey period, covering  [ Read More ]

Global Infrastructure Partners [GIP] are set to transform Edinburgh Airport with the intention of greatly improving and developing the customer experience from Edinburgh Airport. GIP, which also runs Gatwick and London City Airports, is acquiring Edinburgh Airport from BAA which as many will know was forced to sell Edinburgh Airport  [ Read More ]

This week Ryanair have made a unique offer to any prospective buyer of Stansted Airport that the airline would be willing to take a financial stake in the airport to demonstrate the airline’s, Stansted’s biggest customer, committment to the airport in the long term. Stansted Airport owners, BAA, have been  [ Read More ]

Yesterday witnessed the arrival of diverted Virgin flights into Stansted Airport following the epic emergency landing of another Virgin Atlantic Airbus A330 at Gatwick Airport. The stricken A330 was forced to make an emergency landing back at Gatwick 90 minutes into the flight following reports from the pilot of warning  [ Read More ]

Stansted baggage handlers have suspended plans to hold a general strike over the Easter holiday weekend. The baggage workers at Stansted Airport, employed by Swissport, are members of the GMB and Unite unions had threatened a walk out over proposed changes to shift patterns. In a statement issued earlier this  [ Read More ]

Europe’s biggest airline has sent a warning cry to the Government over concerns at the performance of regional airports like Stansted Airport. In response to the Chancellor’s Budget speak from last week, the Ryanair boss believes that the debate around more airport capacity must include the resurrection of the 2nd  [ Read More ]

Stansted Airport is currently achieving the best performance for aircraft movements leaving on time, according to new figures released this week. The records, published by the Civil Aviation Authority [CAA] demonstrates that in 2011, 85% of all Stansted scheduled flights departed the airport on time, this represent an increase of  [ Read More ]

Night flights into and out of Stansted Airport are planned to continue for at least a further 18 months. Flights between 23.30 and 06.00 were to be re-assessed from October 2012 following extensive complaints from local residents. In a meeting last week that involved the Tranpsort Secretary Justine Greening supporters  [ Read More ]