it has been rumored for years that all the staff carparking will move over there

What's the plans for the Enterprise House car park ? Looks like they are making another entrance so i presume they will block the gap between upper and lower and make it 2 seperate car parks ??

think its they r just changing the route in theres a board in enterprise house which explains what they r doing i think they r putting another checkpoint just past the old entrance an a roundabout

From the plans circulated to local residents the Titan hangar and a single linked taxiway appear to remain, at least initially, with almost all remaining area north of a line running east from from Harrods to the Fire training area earmarked for long term car parking. A new public border road is planned to by-pass Burton End (running approximately along the line of the current airfield boundary, linking up with the minor road to Elsenham east of the Fire training area.

Someone mentioned earlier the building of the visitor centre; its access will be from the current LT car park mini-roundabout and located close to the 05 threshhold. Its location, for the majority of the year, will only give views of the undersides of departing aircraft and very limited views of most arrivals on 23. The BAA (unsurprisingly and arrogantly) ignored offers of help from the local (enthusiast) community with its design, location and help to build something useful which has been long overdue at Stansted. Consequently BAA have missed a good opportunity to win friends and have a potential white elephant in the making.

Are these plans / layout viewable online, maybe via the local authority?

J

North-side plans
 

Will these plans mean an end to the local bus company parking area at North side, i.e. Excel ( which have just been taken over by Arriva).

See http://www.stanstedairport.com/asset...Drawing_3n.pdf

From this it appears that the coach park will remain north side until 2015 if it is designated as an ancillary service

Additionally my information about the new link road, which is not shown on the map, came from a BAA leaflet issued to local residents.

Has anyone else heard that the runway was apparently shut last night coz a deer had some how got on the airfield!!

Well ThomsonFly/FCA/TUIFly what ever it’s to be called have 2 B738’s to be based @ STN Summer 2009. The programme so far (Edition 1) Looks like this….

Antalya (New for TFly) Friday
Arrecife (Lanzarote) Thursday
Bodrum (New for TFly) Monday & Thursday
Corfu Monday & Friday
Dalaman Monday & Thursday
Faro (New for TFly) Sunday
Fuerteventura Saturday
Heraklion (Crete) Tuesday & Sunday
Ibiza Wednesday & Saturday
Kephalonia (New Destination!) Sunday
Mahon (Menorca) Monday & Friday
Larnaca (Cyprus) (New for TFly) Wednesday
Palma (Mallorca) Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday & Sunday
Paphos (Cyprus) Wednesday & Saturday
Reus (Costa Dorada) (New for TFly) Tuesday
Rhodes (New for TFly) Wednesday
Tenerife South Fridays
Zakynthos (New for TFly) Tuesday

Note that “New for ThomsonFly” was probably previously operated by FCA Summer 2008.

New destination of Kephalonia and increased frequencies on some routes, so for a base that was supposed to close (TOM) that’s a bit of a turn around at least! :D

ooooops!!!!
 

any truth in the rumour that ryanair parked one of their a/c in the grass last night????

Yes very true (EI-DLF), took them 7 hours to get it out!

TOM
 

Some good Charter news at last, thanks for the info.

It was announced yesterday but Ryanair will start summer only routes from STN to Beziers and Rimini. They will operate in June, July and August.

Stansted Control Tower!
 

What a shame it has gone!! I had the privilege to work in that building from 1969 until 1973! I was there when the "new terminal" was built and the "old terminal became the staff canteen!! At times the new terminal was too small, even then! Remember Channel, Lloyds, American Flyers, Saturn, Trans Med with their CL 44's doing charter flights to Ostend and other near European destinations! Memories!! How times move on, but the memories of Stansted as it was in the late 60's and early 70's remain! Good luck to all that work there now and may it be as good for you now as it was for me then!!

EOS
 

What a shock to hear that EOS is to end flying as from today, a sad day indeed. Best wishes to all concerned, Essex will miss you.

This is sad news!

You can hear the back slapping in Waterside & Dallas from here. AAL can now pull the JFK services.

Sceptical, moi? :eek:

EOS
 

What sad news indeed, good luck to all who were involved. Another one for us to add to the list.

Its a real shame to hear that EOS have not survived.Unfortunately this just reinforces servisairs resolve to implement their split shift initiative,but as they say,time will tell.Going to be an interesting year at STN.Best of luck to all EOS staff.

I hope the slots are not filled with FR and EZY:ugh:.

DAZ - Don't think timing of EOS slots are prime to the likes of FR and U2 as they had no departures during the first wave period. It may mean some "tweaking" by 15mins or so during mid-morning tho'.

Does anyone know which Charter airlines will be flying STN to TFS this winter?

TCX I believe.

Stn-tfs
 

Does anyone know which Charter airlines will be flying STN to TFS this winter?

Tuesday TCX346
Tuesday FCA5202
Friday TCX391
Friday FCA5518

Fly Lal
 

Airline prepares for Stansted – Lithuania flights

05.05.08
On May 17, flyLAL-Lithuanian Airlines, the Lithuanian national carrier, is to start twice weekly direct flights between Stansted to Palanga, the Lithuanian resort on the ‘amber’ coast.
In addition the airline will launch a four flights a week service between Stansted and Vilnius, Lithuania’s capital city.
The new flights to Palanga will operate each Thursday and Saturday, departing from Stansted at 08:15 and arriving at Palanga International Airport at 12:50. The return flights leave Palanga at 06:55 and arrive at Stansted at 07:25 (all times local).
The new flights will be operated using a Boeing 737 – 300 aircraft. :D:ok:

and of course aegean starts twice daily athens from the 15th may!

anyone got anymore news on air asia x, and i am not interested in which party says which handling agent will have it wrapped up in the bag before its announced officially and i do not mean unofficially in the nerve centre of aviation news and airport gossip that is the smoking hut!

just interested if anyone nows is it any further foward in happening taking into account trying to obtain the aircraft,price of oil and the general world economic state!

What is the current situation with passenger numbers from Stansted? Is it still down on last year like it was in December after the Ryanair and Air Berlin winter cut backs.

Prov CAA stats show April down, -5.6%. For the rolling 12 months, down -1.4%.

Why? Is this situation likely to turn around over the summer? I therefore don't understand the need for a second runway.

I would anticipate numbers being down from now on, for a year or more depending on the economy. STN has lost a number of its operators (Sky Europe, Eos, Maxjet, etc), and others have cut back, notably FR - the largest.

With increased fuel prices and recession beginning to bite, numbers are likely to be down almost everywhere, and STN will be no exception.

As for the second runway, I would not be surprised to see changes to its spec as BAA comes under the microscope of the Competition Commission, and as it tries to cut back on capital expenditure. Unless, that is, the whole airport is sold off. Then all bets will be off.

I can't understand why Stansted doesn't have low-cost operators to the Canaries.

Why is it that the charter operators don't seem to like it much either?

I don't know why that is, i've always thought the same thing and could only think that it's maybe because Luton is only down the road with Gatwick also not to far away.

Both GO and GSM have tried daily flights to TFS from STN.

Never mind, Sunday.

Luton has lots of Canaries flights, to TFS, LPA, ACE and FUE. It's not far from Sudbury, and it's a far better experience than Stansted!:ok:

AA drops STN
 

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/080528/law021a.html?.v=1

AA are cutting JFK-STN from 2nd July.

Sad news
 

So short lived, at least we know it's nothing to do with loads.

So what next ? Ryanair to Newyork ? :oh: ?

I guess it reached it's aim.......of getting rid of Maxjet and Eos.......

I find this so sad, especially how the flights were usually always busy.

Bums on seats, as has been said many times before does not equate to a profitable route. The name of the game is yield and Stansted was always unlikely to be drowning in high yield traffic IN COMAPRISON with Heathrow.

The fact that the route isn't even surviving the summer tells that much.

Such a shame and feel very sad for the guys and gals that will lose jobs........ but as previously said by a fellow ppruner the aim was merely to get rid of MJ and EOS and use they are just using the fuel costs as a good covering excuse.

How is this going to affect the decision on the second runway??

Will this make Ferrovial think about selling Stansted now??

Not looking very good is it!!!

There is a demand there however, there are enough of us living on the right side of London (or wrong) who find Stansted an easy 30 min drive and having flown thru there a number of times lately I have to say it's been a pleasure for a change. My flights with AA to NY however I'm guessing I'll be having to take the very long schlep to LHR and get on the phone to them tomorrow to re book. Not everyone who lives in London lives in Hownslow or W1 or Luton for that matter. But as usual the Stansted bashing will start again (wrong place/grass field in the middle of no where etc.... boring move on):ugh: