Mid Term at Stansted :

Priced close to short term.
Long bus ride away so like long term.
Only one bus on duty because few use it, so much angst as your checkin deadline creeps closer with no bus in sight.
Costs more to park for a few days than the flight did.

Yeah I wish we'd used long term now, still we'll know next time. Parking was 67 quid, and the flights were 89 quid for two! (NB have to say quid 'cos someone set up my PC as American language and the pound sign doesn't work!)
Actually there seemed to be more than one bus; there was already one at the terminal when we arrived from the car park, and the zone we were directed to was pretty full.

New Routes?
 

Does anyone know of any new routes which could be launced from Stansted? Ryanair will hopefully announce some Morocco routes in the next few months.

Seen a couple of Flyme cancellations lately and looking at the stats I'm not surprised, average of 43 pax per flight. I don't fancy that one lasting past the summer, FR are killing them. Blue1 to Helsinki seems to be doing even worse, their average is 34 pax.

On the plus side Albanian Airlines start next week 4x weekly Tirana.

TIRANA
 

tommyc2005

LV will be using a BAC 146. Dep.Tirana 06.30-STN 08.50 on 3/7
Tirana 13.30-STN 15.50 on 2/5

NEW ROUTE ?
 

A 'New Start Up' for Gibraltar has been sited using 2 wet leased 737's for direct flights to STN.

:D

Close to 720 movements at Stansted last Friday!

Anybody know whos going to be handling these? Im thinking AGS?

FlyGlobespan
 

Starting service to Chambery 12/06-04/07
Looks like a summer service in 07 too, but at present the summer 07 service to TFS is not listed.
Also there is no winter service to Geneva listed

Did anyone see the amount of Bizjets parked up Northside this morning. :eek:

Yep a very busy night apparently.

MY
 

The MY8000 charter from Orlando returning to STN at 10.30.

Centralwings are starting 3x weekly to Warsaw from the end of November, not sure how long it will last, or if it will indeed start as they have a poor track record. Would have thought they would have gone daily at least.

WHBM wrote Isn't it a pity that the airport with argueably the best rail served infrastuctue in the UK has the worst train operator running on it. Central trains running from the west are appalingly un-reliable and One from the south and east have the shabbiest rolling stock in the rail business. What a waste of a fantastic resource that can benefit passengers and sensitive global warming issues. I hope the STN press and business sections read this. Sort the rail companies out please, they are letting you down.

Gibraltar
Isn't it ironic that you could probably fly from STN to Gib quicker than you could get in by car after queuing to get through the frontier from La Linea?

EM

November?
 

Company states service starting on 15/12/06. Operating on 1-3-5.
Warsaw-STN 07.30-09.10. STN-Warsaw 09.55-13.10.

England Team Arrive at STN
 

Nice to see the England team using Stansted for a change (probably because Beckham only lives down the road).
But anyway nice to see...............and they certainly avoided the fans who were all waiting at the VP:D

Alitalia
 

Whats with the AZ today? Whats the reason for this service? Just a charter? Good to see tho!

I am afraid the world has moved on. The days when people could/would spend half a day each way between the airport and their house on public transport have gone. We expect to drive to the airport, have convenient parking, and fly. That is what airports are in business to deliver, not to lecture us on the need to use inappropriate public transport so they can appear green and friendly to the government and to the lentil eating brigade. There is a reason why we use cars, it is because they provide overwhelmingly the best journey option.

I live close to London City. It's just over 30 minutes up the M11 to Stansted where I always use the short term (like most others) and can be inside the terminal in 45 minutes from leaving my front door. I often take one of the early departures. For an 0800 departure I leave home long after 0600 and use Easy's on-line check in. I've never missed the flight.

If I go by public transport I have to get up in the middle of the night, spend literally hours on the journey, a fortune on a taxi to Liverpool Street (as the Underground has not started) and a second fortune on the train to the airport, certainly more than parking and car costs. Actually my taxi company charges little different from home to Liverpool Street or to Stansted, and the road journey alone is probably quicker than to Liverpool Street. This is for someone who lives in inner London and is therefore "convenient" to public transport.

On return, by public transport, wait for Stansted Express, to Liverpool Street, Central Line to Bank, DLR to West Ferry, DLR to my home station, long walk home. With suitcases. In today's heat. Ha Ha !

There is a nice new direct train from Stratford to Stansted. It stops at every station along the way, takes 70 minutes, only goes once an hour, and the first train of the day arrives at Stansted at the airport at 1038 in the morning. You couldn't make this up if you tried.

Stansted Airport station is approached by a long single track tunnel under the runway (limiting capacity) to an austere dead-end station, which prevents it being served by any through trains like Gatwick is. To call this the "best airport rail infrastructure in the UK" is I feel inappropriate.

I also saw this flight taking off and was thinking the same thing.

jack_essex

Not a scheduled flight, so must have been a Charter from sunny Rome.