Hijack scenario
Currently Stansted is the designated UK airport in the event that an aircraft is hijacked - mainly because of the large amount of space and ability to isolate/contain such an aircraft. On the Manston thread, the question of making Manston the primary UK airport for hijack scenarios was raised
The last big hijack lasting more than a few hours that I can remember at Stansted was the Afghan case in 2000. I realise that compared to the 1970s/1980s, airport security has significantly reduced the risk, but these events do still happen occasionally. Traffic has more than doubled since; I'm wondering how a large scale hijack would play out today and whether Stansted really could cope without major disruption to flight operations