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London Stansted Airport is a passenger airport located at Stansted Mountfitchet in Uttlesford in Essex, 48 km (30 mi) northeast of Central London.

It's a hub for a number of major European low-cost carriers, being the largest base for low-cost giant Ryanair with over 100 destinations served by the airline. It is the third-busiest airport in the United Kingdom and the third-largest airport serving the London area after Heathrow and Gatwick. Stansted's runway is also used by private companies such as the Harrods terminal which is opposite the main terminal building and handles private jets and some state visits.

The terminal building was designed by Foster Associates with input from the structural engineer Peter Rice and features a "floating" roof, supported by a space frame of inverted-pyramid roof trusses, creating the impression of a stylised swan in flight. From 1997 to 2007 Stansted saw rapid expansion of passenger numbers on the back of the boom in low cost air travel, peaking at 24 million passengers in the 12 months to October 2007, but since then passenger numbers have been in decline. The passenger total in 2010 was 18.6 million.

The airfield was originally opened in 1943 and was used during the Second World War as RAF Stansted Mountfitchet by the Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Force as a bomber airfield and as a major maintenance depot.

The film 'Get Him to the Greek' was filmed at the airport in August 2009 as well as the tv series ' Mile High'.The recent TV mockumentary 'Come Fly With Me' was also filmed at Stansted in late 2010. A documentary called 'Stansted: The Inside Story' follows the daily workings of the airport. Other productions recently filmed at Stansted Airport include 'Last Chance Harvey', 'Flight 93', 'London Dreams', and 'Bugs'.

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