Movements limit is years away for London Stansted

Swift lobbying work by the British Business and General Aviation Association (BBGA) and its members appears to have averted the threat of a new limit on th

By Charles Alcock • Managing Editor

December 30, 2008

Swift lobbying work by the British Business and General Aviation Association (BBGA) and its members appears to have averted the threat of a new limit on the number of non-airline movements at London Stansted Airport. Following discussions with the UK’s Department for Transport (DfT), it has been confirmed that the 10,000-movement limit will apply only once a new overall threshold of 264,000 annual movements has been reached.

According to BBGA chief executive Guy Lachlan, by the time airline traffic at Stansted reaches this level, business aviation will largely be excluded from the airport anyway because it will effectively be unable to get slots anymore–as has been the case at London Heathrow Airport for several years. During 2007, the total number of movements at Stansted was 191,488. This represented growth of just 0.7 percent over the previous year, and, given that economic conditions have worsened significantly over the past 12 months, the 264,000-movement total now seems a distant prospect.

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