Stansted Airport receives planning approval its terminal extension

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• TimM says:

  4 Nov4 November 06:46

  MAG have elevated the ‘duty free maze’ concept to a new level at the newly extended MAN T2. Essentially you have walk three full lengths of the terminal building, two of those through shops and bars before reaching the long corridor to the gates. I fear poor STN travellers will be subject to the same treatment with the new extension.

  • Peter says:

    4 Nov4 November 08:07

    Standard let’s you pay £5 extra for Fastrack Plus, which let’s you open the door to a shortcut bypassing all the shops

    • Londonsteve says:

      4 Nov4 November 18:57

      The mere fact that they cynically do this guarantees that I won’t pay them a fiver and will rather walk past the shops, studiously ignoring them, as I do in any case.

  • Peter says:

    4 Nov4 November 08:08

    *Stansted

  • Mike says:

    4 Nov4 November 17:32

    To be fair that’s only if you’re departing from the A gates – the B gates are pretty much opposite the exit from duty free…

• Jenny says:

  4 Nov4 November 07:45

  Is Emirates likely to build a lounge here? Preferably with direct boarding

  • Chris W says:

    4 Nov4 November 09:40

    Surely Emirates has a fair bit of sway at Stansted given it’s the most premium carrier there and surely their no 1 request in any development would be to build their own lounge

  • Tom says:

    4 Nov4 November 09:41

    An Emirates lounge is already under construction in the existing satellite terminal, sadly opening is slightly delayed though.

• Sam says:

  4 Nov4 November 08:17

  As an aside, Stansted is trialling the new scanners that you don’t have to remove liquids for, but you’re not made aware beforehand. When you go through the first boarding pass scan check, make sure you use the machine to the furthest left and you should be filtered to a separate channel. This was as of last week.

  • TGLoyalty says:

    4 Nov4 November 10:03

    Yup used this in June but as you say it’s random so you can’t plan but here’s hoping everyone meets the 2024 deadline as it’ll make clearing security far better

• Gordon says:

  4 Nov4 November 09:27

  Read this on bbc news a few days ago.Does this pave the way to LHR plans getting the go ahead, all be it on a much bigger scale!

  • Rob says:

    4 Nov4 November 09:33

    Oddly, expansion at (especially) Gatwick with the 2nd runways makes Heathrow less viable. The Heathrow plan is to basically bankrupt Gatwick, and Stansted to a lesser extent, by taking all their traffic. There won’t be much in the way of extra flights. It’s just spending £30 billion to destroy competitors with little overall value for the UK.

    • ADS says:

      5 Nov5 November 12:31

      and also increasing the noise for the millions of Londoners who live under the flightpath into Heathrow!

• Lady London says:

  4 Nov4 November 10:28

  Wondering why the Local Authority for Stansted tried to withdraw permission for the earlier expansion request after giving it.

  Sadly it seems most of the time Local Authority denials of planning permission for expansion by businesses get overruled by Government anyway.

  • Rob says:

    4 Nov4 November 10:55

    There is some logic in that approach. At some point, ‘national interest’ has to override local interest. Note, for example, the blocking of a £1.2bn UK/France electricity connector last year (which would add 5% to UK electricity capacity) by Portsmouth Council. This has been overturned by judicial review.

• tw33ty says:

  4 Nov4 November 10:48

  Maybe they should spend some of the money cleaning Stansted and fixing the flooring and seats.

  Only the shopping and sitting area are half decent, the check in and the the corridors after the shops and the departure gates are really shabby, Lino all taped together, seat cushions ripped up, even the toilets are smelly and dirty.

  • Londonsteve says:

    4 Nov4 November 19:02

    Is it just me or are the ceilings also filthy with dirt on the reflectors dulling the effect of the lights? I recall the bright, light atmosphere in the main terminal not long after it first opened and had relatively few flights. GO was the big breakthrough, even before Ryanair turned it into their main London base. Since then it has turned into an absolute hole.

• southlondonphil says:

  4 Nov4 November 11:40

  One aspect of building out the back of the terminal is that the people-mover transit to the gate buildings will go, to be replaced with, er walking.
  During construction works every departure is going to be a ‘bus gate’ – one of many reasons not to travel via Stansted in the foreseeable!

  • ADS says:

    5 Nov5 November 12:35

    I’m surprised that they aren’t extending the building on the side rather than at the back. Although maybe they wanted to get rid of the transit train anyway.

• Richie says:

  4 Nov4 November 12:23

  Stansted was great in the 90s with Go-Fly flights.

  • Lyn says:

    4 Nov4 November 15:16

    And for Air UK flights in 1990, before the new terminal opened. Very useful if you worked in Cambridge, as you could park right in front of the terminal building and there was little point in arriving early because check-in only opened at the last minute.

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