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Stansted Airport has announced that Continental Airlines is to launch a new transatlantic service to New York next May, which is expected to make eastern England more attractive to inward investors. 11-Oct-2000 Stansted Airport has won approval from Uttlesford District Council for a £200m expansion that will double the number of passengers and create up to 5,000 jobs. 01-Apr-1999 Stansted Airport is expecting to create up to 1,000 extra jobs this year, including 100 at BAA, 200 at Ryanair, and 150 at Go. 05-Mar-1999 Stansted airport is submitting plans to increase passenger capacity from 8m to 15m a year, which would create about 7,000 jobs. 09-Oct-1998 British Airways' cut-price airline Go is to create 200 jobs at Stansted Airport and add eight more planes. 01-Oct-1998 Go, the British Airways low-cost airline, is to offer cheap flights from Stansted to Edinburgh, the first time it has competed directly with EasyJet on a specific route. 13-Aug-1998 Ryanair is looking to add Helsinki to its list of destinations served from Stansted airport. 10-Apr-1998 Ryanair of Ireland is planning to undercut British Airways by 75% on six new routes from Stansted to Italy, France and Scandinavia. 26-Feb-1998 Berisford has won planning permission to build 650 homes at Felsted near Stansted airport, following a long-running battle with objectors who claim it will damage the environment and strain local infrastructure. 10-Jan-1998 British Airways has announced plans for the launch of a cut-price airline based initially at Stansted airport, which will create 150 jobs. 18-Nov-1997 Ryanair is planning to apply for a listing in London next year in order to build up a higher profile with investors as it launches new European routes from Stansted and Dublin. 22-Oct-1997 KLM is buying the remaining 55% of Air UK, the Stansted-based carrier, from British Air Transport Holdings. 08-Jul-1997 The MMC has been asked by the Civil Aviation Authority to investigate Heathrow, Stansted and Gatwick over increases in airport charges. 12-Dec-1995
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