Uttlesford District Council has given permission to Stansted Airport to increase its capacity to 51 million passengers a year. The plans were approved at a meeting earlier today (17 December), and are set to make Stansted the country's second busiest airport after Heathrow. Stansted had already se...

UK airports are bracing for their busiest day of the year on Friday 29 August, according to aviation analytics firm Cirium. A total of 3,271 flights are scheduled to depart, offering more than half a million seats. The figure marks the highest number of UK departures since October 2019, just befor...

Unite has secured 200 Stansted airport workers employed by ABM Aviation a pay rise of 12.4 per cent. In addition, the workers, who provide special assistance for the airport's most vulnerable passengers, will receive company sick pay for the first time and an increase in overtime rates of 49.4 pe...

A widespread IT update has caused significant disruptions across the UK, affecting airlines, the London Stock Exchange, railway stations, banks, and even Sky News. Airports across the UK, including Edinburgh, Stansted, Gatwick, Manchester, and Luton, have been impacted. Several railway stations o...

London Stansted's unrivalled European route network has been further boosted by the arrival of leading leisure airline SunExpress. The Turkish carrier, a joint venture between Lufthansa and Turkish Airlines, will offer three flights a week to Izmir, Turkey’s third largest city, from October 202...

Ryanair has (27th Sept) launched its Winter 23/24 schedule for London (Gatwick, Luton & Stansted) with 7 new routes to Belfast, Basel, Ouarzazate, Tatry, Tirana, Treviso, and Vigo, and increased frequencies on 30 more routes, incl. Alicante, Athens, Bratislava, Cologne & Faro. To support ...

Today Emirates restarts flights from London Stansted (STN) as it continues to rebuild its UK and global network in response to sustained demand for international travel. This is the first commercial flight Emirates has flown from Stansted since pausing operations from the airport in March 2020 du...

Today (2nd Mar), Ryanair announced its largest ever Summer schedule from its 3 London airports (Gatwick, Luton, and Stansted) with 14 new routes (181 total) to exciting destinations across Europe, including Naples, Madeira, and Stockholm. With over 100 based aircraft for S22, Ryanair’s total in...

Ryanair today (1 August) launched extra August bank holiday flights from Stansted, Manchester and East Midlands with 13 extra return flights to top summer destinations across 10 routes to Croatia, Greece, Italy and Spain. These additional flights will be on sale for travel on the 26th and 30th of...