Stansted surprises me as an airport, because I was one of this ignorant people who believed that the only airlines that operated out of it were short haul charters, easyJet and Ryanair. I found out fairly recently that Malév Hungarian Airlines also fly from there and have just discovered that CSA Czech Airlines do, too!

Any idea why they do it? Heathrow isn’t that far away and Stansted does techincally qualify as being a London Airport.

Thanks very much for the comments LBA and T5. In answer to your question, CSA have been flying this route for quite a number of years. It seems quite popular, with 3 flights each way daily. Think there are only this number of flights flown from Heathrow! And remember that Luftahnsa had quite a big presence here, until they pulled out after Sept 11th.

Malev have been flying here since early this year, and have already doubled their frequencies. Air Berlin too is our 3rd biggest operator, flying about 30 flights a day to/from quite a number of airports in Germany and Europe.

Then there was something in each of these 3 (be it content, quality, or lighting) that really made my evening. 😀 Kept these ones a bit larger, trying to stop them being compressed too much.

FR 738 EI-DAN (love the light glistening on the fuselage, and it’s my name of course :D)

CSA 737 OK-DGL (kinda obvious why I like it…first time I had caught it too)

WestAir ATP SE-LPT (fairly rare, but I also love the way the sun is sparkling in it, and props always seem to look good in photos)