London Stansted airport is one of the international airports serving London and a base of several low-cost airlines including Ryanair which serves 130 destinations from Stansted. The growth of the low-cost airlines have made Stansted the fourth busiest airport in the country, with 24 million passengers a year.
Stansted was opened in 1943 as a simple airfield for the Royal Air Force and was changed to a civilian airport after the war, in 1949, but traffic remained limited to charter flights. Only after the British Government decided to transform Stansted into London's third airport that growth took off.
London Stansted Airport is not a large airport so there are not many flights departing here. There are only a few destinations that you can reach from London Stansted Airport, most of these are operated by Ryanair. Many people take a flight to Eindhoven and transfer to another flight there.
Eindhoven (EIN)
Valencia (VLC)