London Stansted’s engineering team is using the unprecedented grounding of aircraft across the globe as a unique opportunity to move planned overnight runway maintenance works to daytime hours. Stansted’s 3,048 foot runway undergoes full re-surfacing work every 10 to 15 years but, as with ot...

Two women are blazing a trail at London Stansted after becoming the first female firefighters to join the ranks of the airport’s fire and rescue service. Hannah Inggs and Amber Popham join Finn Edwards and Charlie Fry as the first intake of London Stansted’s newly created firefighter appre...

A new report out from London Stansted Airport reveals that the airport’s catchment area is responsible for more than half of all UK demand to some of the world’s most popular destinations. According to new data from Skyscanner, over 50 percent of all UK searches for flights to top locations...

Airline and airport assistance services provider OmniServ is partnering with London Stansted airport to trial a new mobility solution which combines the benefits of a wheeled walking frame and a light-weight wheelchair. The solution, dubbed the Wheellator, enables passengers with low to medium l...

Ryanair and Omniserv say Blue Handling – the new ground handling provider established at London Stansted Airport in February – has already delivered a 90 per cent improvement on performance and satisfaction levels compared with a year ago. Blue Handling is responsible for the Irish low-cost ...

Ground handling services provider Universal Aviation UK has announced its International Standard for Business Aviation Handling (IS-BAH) stage II registration. The London Stansted-based provider, ground support division of Universal Weather and Aviation, Inc., earned its IS-BAH stage I registrat...

UK airport group MAG has raised £350 million in the UK capital markets through the issuance of a 25 year bond, at a competitive interest rate coupon of 2.875 per cent. MAG has disclosed that the order book for the bond was four times oversubscribed, totalling £1.4 billion. MAG plans to use ...

Manchester Airports Group (MAG) has chosen new Rohde & Schwarz QPS201 security scanners for its Manchester, London Stansted and East Midlands airports as part of a five-year agreement. MAG said it made the move as the scanners have a fast scan cycle and open architecture, and will assist in ...

London Stansted Airport has three brand new seating areas, created in its busy departure lounge, which has increased capacity by 40 percent. The improvements, which are part of the £600 million Stansted Transformation Project, have created a comfortable seating area with room for more than 1000 pa...

London Stansted, the third largest in London (4th in UK), serving over 27 million passengers a year has appointed Mace as the main contractor for the  construction of its new £150 million arrivals terminal. Work on the 39,000 square metre terminal is due to start in spring this year (2019) and ...

London airports London Luton Airport (LLA) and London Stansted Airport have had their busiest ever Novembers and are bracing themselves for a busy Christmas. LLA experienced an 11.5 per cent increase in passenger numbers in November compared to the year before, as more than 1.1 million passengers...

London Stansted Airport has been given the go ahead by Uttlesford District Council to increase the number of passengers it can serve from 35 million to 43 million a year. The airport submitted a planning application to increase its annual numbers which it said will make best use of the capacity t...

Ryanair announced yesterday that it has chosen OmniServ as its new handler at London Stansted Airport, following an extensive tendering process. From 1st February 2019, OmniServ (operating as Blue Handling) will provide all of Ryanair’s check-in, baggage and ground operations handling at Sta...

Companies bidding to build London Stansted Airport's new arrivals terminal are being asked to commit to a range of sustainability and CSR initiatives as part of the project. The airport has triggered the tender to find a contractor to work on the latest phase of its transformation project. It is ...

Former chief operating officer (COO) for Virgin Atlantic Airways and London Underground at Transport for London Steve Griffiths has been appointed COO of London Stansted Airport. He will be responsible for the safe and secure day to day leadership of the airport whilst it undertakes its bigges...