Stansted airport seeks to remove cap on volume

London

LONDON Stansted airport, which attracted 20 million passengers in 2014, has said that it will pursue plans to double volumes without the need for a new runway as wrangling over a new landing strip at the capital's Heathrow hub drags on.

Seeking to expand beyond discount travel, Stansted will lobby for the removal of a cap that limits volumes to 35 million travellers a year, allowing the single runway to reach its full 45-million capacity, Charlie Cornish, chief executive officer at owner Manchester Airports Group, said on Friday in an interview.