News from London Southend Airport

January 17, 2013

LONDON SOUTHEND AIRPORT IN NUMBERS

100,000,000    Private sector pounds (£) invested in the airport by Stobart Group

21,000,000      The sum paid for the airport by Stobart Group

2,000,000        The predicted number of passengers to travel through the airport by 2020

800,000           The number of passengers easyJet will bring through the airport during year 1

2012                The Olympic Games came to London – with the Olympic village in Stratford sitting just 19 miles west of Southend

2008                The year Stobart Group acquired London Southend Airport

1964                The year 007 movie Goldfinger was filmed at London Southend Airport

1500                The number of employees on the airport site

500                  The number of new jobs created by summer 2012 at the airport

350                    Acres. The size of the airport – or 1.4 million square metres

53                    Minutes by train from the airport to the heart of the City of London – Liverpool St. station

44                    Minutes by train from the airport to Stratford in east London, home of the 2012 Olympic Games, and of Europe’s

                        newest and biggest shopping centre – Westfield Stratford City

15                    Minutes from plane to train through the airport’s new terminal building

4                      Maximum queuing time at check-in (minutes)

3                      London Southend Airport was the UK’s third busiest airport during the 1960’s

0                      The number of shuttle buses at London Southend Airport – we’ve designed and built everything close enough together

                        so we don’t need shuttle buses.