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.
Most flights from London Stansted Airport are to Eindhoven and to Istanbul but there are many more flights to other destinations as well, most of them by Ryanair. These are the most popular destinations from London Stansted Airport:
Eindhoven (EIN)
Istanbul (ISTA)
Alicante (ALC)Istanbul (ISTA)
Dubai (DXB)Rotterdam (RTM)
Lisbon (LIS)
Milan (MILA)
