Flight Radar London Stansted

London Stansted Airport is an international airport located in Essex, 30 miles away from Central London. It is the fourth busiest airport in the UK, and the third busiest in the Greater London Area. More than 24 million people a year take a flight through London Stansted Airport, along with large numbers of cargo planes. Stansted serves all kinds of destinations, and all of its flights can be tracked using our site’s Flight Radar. This is easy to do, simply find London Stansted on the map, and you will be able to see all the flights which are in the air and can be tracked live. Choose one to follow, or watch them all come and go.

The History of London Stansted

London Stansted Airport was opened as a base for bomber planes in 1943 during the Second World War. After the war it did not become a commercial passenger airport until the 1960s, where it became a major centre for scheduled passenger flights. Before this London Stansted had been used for cargo flights, a role which it still continues to this day. As London’s other two airports, Heathrow and Gatwick had become overly busy, Stansted became London’s third airport, allowing the capital to take up to 25 million extra passengers. Stansted is still well served by planes today, which can all be tracked in the air using the Flight Radar.

Destinations from London Stansted

London Stansted Airport is the most airport most used for chartered flights in the UK, and so many of its destinations are popular tourist and holiday destinations. It is a centre for flights between the parts of the UK and Ireland, with the airport’s three most popular destinations being Dublin, Edinburgh and Glasgow. With the airport’s many scheduled flight operators, you can also travel to places across Europe, such as Rome, Barcelona and Madrid. These flights are all easily track-able using the Flight Tracker found on this site.

Airlines at London Stansted

London Stansted Airport is the UK’s most popular airport with operators of Scheduled flights. Stansted is a major hub for low cost airlines, and is the home base for Ryanair. Other low cost airlines to fly from Stansted are easyJet, Jet2, Thomas Cook and Thomson Airlines. Between these airlines you can fly almost anywhere from Stansted at a low cost. Stansted also services airlines which provide seasonal chartered flights, such as Austrian Airlines, Freebird Airlines and Titan Airways. Stansted also operates many flights from Cargo companies, such as FedEx, Royal Mail and UPS. All of these flights can be tracked online using the Flight Radar.

Flying from London Stansted

London Stansted is the perfect airport to find a low cost scheduled flight to any number of popular holiday destinations across Europe. London Stansted’s location east of Central London means that it is popular with people from the nearby counties such as Essex, Suffolk and Kent, but due to the airport’s transport connections, it is easily reached from central London and the surrounding areas. Find out if London Stansted Airport is the one for you by checking out the Flight Tracker on this site, and perusing the flights in and around the airport. If there’s a route that seems like the one for you, travel from London Stansted.