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Stansted pushes for more flights
27 April 2006
Stansted is pushing for 23,000 more flights a year.
The airport is applying for the right to have 63 more flights a day bringing its limits to 264,000 flights a year.
Nick Barton, Stansted's business development and planning director, said about the application: 'Today is an important day for Stansted and is the culmination of two years of extensive and wide-ranging studies and consultation on our proposals.'
If the application is granted it could see 35 million passengers using the airport each year, making Stansted the busiest single-runway airport in the world.
BAA, which runs the airport, expects passenger numbers to hit 25 million by 2008.
The airport is also set to apply to build a second runway later this year, costing around £2.7 billion.
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The airport is applying for the right to have 63 more flights a day bringing its limits to 264,000 flights a year.
Nick Barton, Stansted's business development and planning director, said about the application: 'Today is an important day for Stansted and is the culmination of two years of extensive and wide-ranging studies and consultation on our proposals.'
If the application is granted it could see 35 million passengers using the airport each year, making Stansted the busiest single-runway airport in the world.
BAA, which runs the airport, expects passenger numbers to hit 25 million by 2008.
The airport is also set to apply to build a second runway later this year, costing around £2.7 billion.
© Adfero Ltd
