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3 unusual facts about London Stansted Airport


126th Air Refueling Wing

RAF Stansted (USAAF Station 169), England, February 1944 (Station 169)

Artur Gadowski

On October 15 he was guest on a TV show Weekend z Gwiazdą (Weekend with the Star) which was, by way of an exception, broadcast from the Stansted airport near London, UK.

Handley Page HP.88

The HP.88 was delivered to Handley Page and on 6 August 1951 was flown to Stansted for further testing.


AB Airlines

AB Airlines was an airline with its head office in the Entreprise House on the property of London Stansted Airport in Uttlesford, Essex.

Aurigny Air Services

In 1993, Aurigny won a contract to carry mail between the Channel Islands and the UK and in 1999 it began daily services from Guernsey to London Stansted Airport and Amsterdam Airport operated by Saab 340 aircraft.

Busiest airports in the United Kingdom by total passenger traffic

London Stansted and London Luton are the fourth- and fifth-busiest airports respectively.

London Stansted – Plans for a second runway to increase capacity were shelved in 2010.

Dublin Airport

Dublin is also one of only seven airports in the world to serve all six London Airports: Stansted, Luton, Gatwick, Heathrow, London City and Southend.

Erfurt–Weimar Airport

The airport used to have scheduled service from London Stansted Airport from Ryanair which ceased on 19 January 2005 when the airline moved services to Leipzig–Altenburg Airport leaving the airport with no regular flights operated by a low-cost carrier.

Great Hallingbury

On 22 December 1999, Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509 crashed into Hatfield Forest near Great Hallingbury shortly after take-off from nearby London Stansted Airport.

Phil Cameron

Since then, the company has opened five UK airport lounges: a Flagship lounge at Heathrow Terminal 3, the North and South Terminals at Gatwick Airport, two at Stansted and the company’s first lounge outside London, at Birmingham.


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