Stansted Airport has won approval to take massive Airbus A380 jets from Emirates Airline on divert in a move that could hold enormous long-term potential for the Essex hub.
It's unlikely to be enormous long term potential as the biggest aircraft at the minute in Essex is a single A340-300. On divert, unless on an emergency, Emirates would use Gatwick were Heathrow unavailable and vice versa, if both London fields were out, then it's Manchester as it's an exisiting Emirates station. Hence on those days where LHR, LGW and MAN are all unavailable then STN it is. Even LGW's A380 stands are miles from the terminals on new remote stands and are also claiming similar enormous potential....
The management’s strategy is to leverage the market-leading headroom Stansted enjoys in London – in terms of passenger numbers and movements of both freight and passengers – while Gatwick and Heathrow struggle with capacity.
This is the the utter nonsense that I am surrounded by every day at work. Like minded people, blackberry fondling marketing types spouting identical nonsense about schemes that never happen mainly as these people are 99% blah and 1% delivery.