Stansted
Airport is London's third airport in terms of passengers and flights.
The airport currently has about 21 million passengers a year with
flights to over 150 destinations in 34 countries.
Stansted is the fourth busiest airport in the UK, the fastest-growing
major airport in Europe, and the main home of the leading low-cost
scheduled airlines. |
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Stansted Airport is dominated by the low cost budget airlines. All
routes worth speaking about are within Europe. A small but significant
proportion of flights are charter flights for the British to the sun. |
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The
dominant carriers at Stansted are Ryanair
and easyJet.
Both Ryanair and easyJet fly to all the main domestic cities within
the United Kingdom and most countries within 2 or 3 hours flying time.
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Small
regional airlines fly to the Channel Islands, Shetland and Faroe Islands
and Manchester also.
Being North of London, Stansted is much used by Scandinavian low cost
airlines to Norway, Iceland etc.
For a brief period, Stansted became the London terminus of low cost
business airlines to the USA, EOS and Maxjet both failing. The only
surviving airline operating the low cost business model is Silverjet
that operates out of Luton Airport.
There is also significant charter traffic, mostly taking the British
to the sun. A lot of these flights have flight only tickets available. |
Major
Low Cost Routes From Stansted
And The Airlines
Flying Them
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| Austria |
Ryanair |
Graz,
Klagenfurt, Linz, Salzburg |
| Cyprus |
Cyprus
Airways |
Larnaca,
Paphos |
| Czech
Rep |
Ryanair |
Brno,
Prague |
| Denmark |
easyJet |
Copenhagen |
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Ryanair |
Aarhus,
Billund |
| Estonia |
easyJet |
Tallinn |
| Faroe
Islands |
Air
Atlantic |
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| Finland |
Ryanair |
Tampere |
| France |
easyJet |
Lyon,
Nice |
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Ryanair |
Bergerac,
Biarritz, Carcassonne, Dinard, Grenoble, La Rochelle, Limoges, Lourdes,
Marseilles, Montpellier, Nantes, Pau, Perpignan, Poitiers, Toulon,
Tours |
| Germany |
Air
Berlin |
Dusseldorf,
Hanover, Munster/Osnabrook, Nuremberg, Paderborn |
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easyJet |
Munich |
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Germanwings |
Cologne/Bonn,
Stuttgart |
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Ryanair |
Berlin,
Bremen, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Friedrichshaffen, Hamburg, Leipzig
(Altenburg), Karlsruhe, Zweibrucken |
| Greece |
Aegean
Airlines |
Athens |
| Iceland |
Iceland
Express |
Reykjavik
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| Ireland |
Ryanair |
Cork,
Dublin, Kerry, Knock, Shannon |
| Italy |
easyJet |
Naples |
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Ryanair |
Alghero,
Ancona, Bari, Bologna, Brinidisi, Genoa, Lamezia, Milan, Palermo,
Parma, Perugia, Pescara, Pisa, Rimini, Rome, Trieste, Turin (Cuneo),
Venice, Verona |
| Latvia |
Ryanair |
Riga |
| Lithuania |
Ryanair |
Kaunas |
| Malaysia |
Air
Asia X |
Kuala
Lumpur |
| Malta |
Air
Malta |
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| Morocco |
Ryanair |
Agadir |
| Netherlands |
Ryanair |
Eindhoven |
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easyJet |
Amsterdam |
| Norway |
Norwegian |
Oslo,
Tromso, Trondheim |
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Ryanair |
Haugesund,
Oslo |
| Poland |
Ryanair |
Bydgoscz,
Gdansk, Katowice, Krakow, Lodz, Poznan, Rzeszow, Szczecin, Wroclaw |
| Portugal |
easyJet |
Faro,
Funchal |
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Ryanair |
Faro,
Porto |
| Slovakia |
Ryanair |
Bratislava |
| Slovenia |
easyJet |
Ljubljana |
| Spain |
easyJet |
Alicante,
Asturias, Barcelona, Bilbao, Ibiza, Malaga, Madrid, Palma |
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Ryanair |
Alicante,
Fuerteventurea, Granada, Jerez, Murcia, Palma, Reus, Santander, Santiago,
Seville, Tenerife South, Valencia, Valladolid, Zaragoza |
| Sweden |
Ryanair |
Gothenburg,
Stockholm |
| Switzerland |
easyJet |
Basle,
Geneva |
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Ryanair |
Basle |
| Turkey |
Pegasus |
Istanbul |
| UK |
easyJet |
Belfast,
Edinburgh, Glasgow, Newcastle |
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Ryanair |
Belfast, Glasgow, Londonderry, Newquay |
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Atlantic
Express |
Sumburgh |
| Public
Transport Alternatives Between Stansted & London |
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London
Terminus
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Return
Fare (Single) |
Scheduled
Journey |
Comments |
Stansted
Express |
Train |
Liverpool
Street |
£26.00*
(£18.00) |
45
mins |
Fastest,
most expensive option.
Broadly runs from Stansted 06:00 to 00:30
From Liverpool Street 04:40 to 23:25 |
National
Express A6 |
Coach |
Victoria
via
Baker St
Oxford St |
£17.00#
(£10.00) |
100
mins |
24x7
service. Only service that drops off in the centre close to hotel districts
of Paddington, Oxford St, Bayswater |
Terravision
A50 |
Coach |
Victoria |
£14.00
(£9.00) |
75
mins |
Non-stop
service to Victoria.
Not true 24x7 but not far off. |
Terravision
A51 |
Coach |
Liverpool
Street |
£14.00
(£9.00) |
55
mins |
Cheaper
alternative to Stansted Express.
Bus also stops at Bow by Bow Underground
Not true 24x7 but not far off. |
National
Express A9 |
Coach |
Stratford |
£15.00#
(£8.00) |
55
mins |
Non-stop
service to closest Underground station to Stansted. 24x7 schedule
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National
Express A4 |
Coach |
Golders
Green |
£17.00#
(£10.00) |
70
mins |
Non-stop
service to Underground station convenient for North London. 24x7 schedule
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| easyBus |
Minibus |
Baker
St
& Victoria |
£13.00*
(£2+) |
80/100
mins |
Minibus service. Fixed maximum return fare.
Variable single fares - low cost airline pricing |
Underground
Zones
Zone 1 - Baker Street, Marble Arch, Liverpool Street, Victoria
Zone 2 - Finchley Road
Zone 3 - Bromley by Bow, Golders Green, Stratford, Tottenham Hale
* Fares depicred are advance purchase web fares.
# Not including National Express booking fee per transaction - £0.50
internet, £2.00 telephone |
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