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BA increases Malaga and Faro to a all year service.

05:40 MAH MT
06:00 NAP EZY
06:05 AGP EZY
06:20 CFU MT
06:35 MAH TOM
06:35 PMI EZY
06:30 MAH MT
06:50 ALC LS
07:00 AMS EZY
07:00 NCE EZY
07:00 AGP LS
07:00 OVD EZY
07:00 BIO EZY
07:15 DLM TOM
07:45 BFS EZY
07:50 CGN 4U
07:50 STR EW
08:00 PMI LS
08:15 FAO LS
08:30 GRO LS
08:45 REU LS
08:50 GLA EZY
08:55 DND BE
09:00 EDI EZY
09:30 LAS MT
09:35 BJV PC
10:20 CAG EZY
10:35 BFS EZY
10:40 CUN MT
10:55 BOJ BGH
11:55 PRG EZY
12:10 AMS EZY
12:15 BFS EZY
12:45 ACE MT
12:50 NAP EZY
13:05 LJU EZY
13:15 MUC EZY
13:20 SAW PC
13:35 IST KK
13:50 LPA TOM
13:50 LCA LS
14:25 KGS LS
14:35 ZTH LS
14:40 TFS LS
14:45 LCA CO
15:00 FNC LS
15:00 DLM MT
15:25 GCI GR
15:45 SAW PC
15:45 DLM MT
15:50 DLM EZY
15:55 CFU LS
15:55 IBZ LS
16:10 PMI LS
16:15 EDI EZY
16:45 AMS EZY
16:55 BFS EZY
17:25 GLA EZY
17:55 CFU TOM
17:55 EDI EZY
18:15 AGP EZY
18:30 BIO EZY
18:55 NQY BE
19:00 DND BE
19:20 AMS EZY
19:40 TLV IZ
19:55 BFS EZY
19:55 EDI EZY
20:00 VIE EW
20:10 MUC EW
20:20 STR 4U
20:20 IBZ EZY
20:25 HAJ 4U
20:30 CGN 4U
20:55 GLA EZY
23:45 SAW PC

Total Non-FR flights MON 7 AUG = 76

Heres a list of all non-FR flights on 7/8/17, just an example of whats to come this summer. As much as FR is so important to STN its good to see a larger variety of flights. I suspect large growth for the airport again for 2017. I just hope STN are prepared for the increase in passengers at check-in, security, departure lounge and immigration.

Are Jet2 going to be using the main satellite building (gates 1-19)?

Their check-in area/sales desk is looking bright and impressive! :ok:


http://www.dartgroup.co.uk/uploadedI...nsted-desk.jpg

Does Sat 1 has enough stands for EZY, TOM, MT and LS for the morning peak? I wouldn't be surprised if Jet2 use remote stands.

Time to get building satellite #4

Stansted is very 'peaky' - huge demand early morning for departures and arrivals late in the evening. And yes, I know there's also a combined peak about 6 pm using a mix of arrivals and departures. Would MAG perhaps prefer to wait a few years so that airlines can be forced to schedule more flights in the currently vacant non-peak slots first ?

Passport Fast Track
 

Stansted have now introduced a fast track passport lane, which is about £7. On arrival you will, apparantly, be met by a dedicated host to assist one through as fast as possible

What is Passport Control FastTrack?
Passport Control FastTrack is aimed at making your arrival at Stansted Airport as quick and simple as possible. On arrival at the passport control area, you will be greeted at the exclusive fast track lane by a dedicated host. You will then follow the standard border control and passport checks conducted by UK Border Force before entering the Baggage Reclaim area or Arrivals.

Although another moneyspinner for them, might it also be a response to an inadequate service being provided by BorderFarce :(

Yes, Jet2 will be operating from Satellite 1 (Gates 1-19)

Not quite but since the Jet2's generally depart a bit later, they'll probably tow any aircraft on remote stands over once the first few aircraft have left.

Last year they opened the new gates 90-93 which are located in a coaching facility below the Terminal used to access remote parking in the morning rush.

Not sure that's a particularly wise way to manage growth. This is already being accounted for largely by Jet2 who mostly will be operating their second wave of departures between the 14:00 - 16:00 period which has often been much less busy.

I have used Stansted a few times recently including Christmas landing back around 2200 and I have to say a massive improvement. The longest I waited at immigration was about 10 minutes. That really isn't bad considering it's size and the amount of inbound Ryanair's at this time.

Also similarly the outbound experience at security has improved. I walked straight up last time, totally unexpected. It seems there are two entry points for security... The main one that everyone heads for and there's another entry next to the fast track, to the far right of the main entry point. Much quicker in my opinion.

Now they just need a revamp of the check in area. All those white washed walls that were put up with the terminal redevelopment look shabby and temporary.

22:00 is quite a good time to get in though, there is a bit of a lull in international arrivals between about 20:00-22:00. The crunch comes from about 22:45 when quite a few FR flights have offloaded and it gets worse until about midnight. LGW isn't much better though and LTN is about the same in my experience.

I agree security has been an improvement the last couple of times I've passed through

My last flight actually landed back at 23.20. So perhaps I was just lucky.

I believe a Satellite reconfiguration plan begins this week. Looking at a DN that came out the other day, there will be a change in the layout to a couple of Stands on Sat 2 so they will take 737-800s with winglets. Then they are doing something similar on Sat 1 but it will take a few months so could be some short term pain during the early summer for longer term gain.

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Hi All, just out of interest. Apologies if this has been mentioned before. What's being built next to Enterprise House?

Hampton by Hilton hotel

Pegasus have increased their frequencies to SAW for the summer, now up to 4x a day.

Guessing this is a replacement to them pulling out of LGW and an attempt to challenge AtlasGlobal on IST.

Another BA route ?
 

I have just heard that BA is launching yet another route from Stansted 2 weekly to Milan Linate I haven't had this confirmed yet has anyone else heard anything

Milan
Yeah twice weekly Sat/Sun.Its on the BA Web site� Starts 29/4

Cheers growing quite steadily

And they keep coming
 

Another route from BA

London Stansted – Skiathos 26JUN17 – 06SEP17 3 weekly Embraer E190

BA2225 STN0710 – 1230JSI E90 123
BA2224 JSI1315 – 1455STN E90 123

Reported by routes online

These are London City flight times and flight numbers!!!

Maybe an error by routes online then

It does seem odd that BA should send an E90 to STN on three weekday mornings for a single flight.
More likely this is actually an LCY flight.

EZY appear to have gaps in their peak summer schedule. Anything new to be announced??

Derry
 

UK Gov announces new PSO Stansted - Derry service.

Flights operated by BMI Regional, twice daily from 26 March.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/u...derry-air-link

Another welcome addition though not all that surprising

Good to see yet another airline on the scene... Getting quite a reasonable mix of carriers operating from STN now :D

Ryanair Winter 2017/18 Schedule
 

- 3 new routes: Aalborg (3 wkly), Oradea (3 wkly) & Pardubice (3 wkly)
- 6 new winter services: Cagliari (3 wkly), Copenhagen (3 daily), Naples (daily), Nice (daily), Oslo Torp (3 wkly), Ponta Delgada (1 wkly)
Extra flights on 13 routes: Billund (2 daily), Bratislava (2 daily), Budapest (3 daily), Cologne (2 daily), Baden (9 wkly), Lublin (4 wkly), Marseille (daily), Stockholm Skavsta (2 daily), Plovdiv (3 wkly), Poznan (9 wkly), Prague (2 daily), Sofia (16 wkly), Toulouse (2 daily)
- 124 routes in total
- Over 1,100 weekly flights
- 20.5m customers p.a. (+4%)
- 15,000* “on-site” jobs p.a.

Good to see modest growth from FR. With just a 4% rise in capacity this year, FR's share of the traffic at STN will fall quite noticeably for the first time in a fair number of years.

Pretty sure we taxied past a private 787 today in STN parked near the Ryanair hanger. I think it might have had a Saudi flag on the back but wondered if anyone knew what it was? It was dark and pretty rainy so hard to tell for sure but I'm sure someone will know!

UAE Governmental flight regular operator into STN.

It Should be the B787-8 Presidential Flight Authority of Abu Dhabi.

Thomas Cook Summer 2018 Long-haul
 

MT has started to put S18 long-haul flights on sale:

Cancun
MT2938 2,6 Dep. 09:30, Arr. 13:50
MT2939 2,6 Dep. 15:40, Arr. 07:10+1

Las Vegas
MT2986 1 Dep. 09:30, Arr. 12:05
MT2987 1 Dep. 13:55, Arr. 07:40+1

Orlando-Intl
MT2922 5 Dep. 09:50, Arr. 14:05
MT2923 5 Dep. 16:05, Arr. 05:25+1

MT2656 4 Dep. 10:20, Arr. 14:35
MT2957 4 Dep. 16:35, Arr. 05:55+1

MT2940 7 Dep. 10:20, Arr. 14:35
MT2941 7 Dep. 16:35, Arr. 05:55+1

I'm guessing the above are just the school 6 week holiday dates? Or are we to see a full summer schedule?

Yes it's just the usual dates and only 1 a/c as it stands at the moment, though seem to recall it was released like this the last two years.

There are more flights to be released soon. What is on sale for all bases is not the finished product by any stretch of the imagination.

Do we know if Thomson/TUI are operating long-haul Summer 18? It looks like the Cancun has been dropped Winter 17/18.

Wasn't Cancun replaced by Montego Bay?

No. Cancun operates weekly along with the Montego Bay. Montego Bay sort of replaces the Orlando which now only operates April and a couple of dates in August as far as I'm aware. So this summer there is a very small increase in TOM long-haul however come November there appears to be nothing.