Budget airline among bidders for Stansted Airport

Ryanair has clarified that it is considering taking a stake in London’s Stansted Airport but is not actively pursuing a purchase.

The airline has been linked with a number of potential bidders for the airport — which is its main British hub — in the wake of it coming up for sale last month, as part of the dilution of UK airport owner BAA.

Britain’s Competition Commission has forced BAA to sell Gatwick and Edinburgh airports and it is now set to lose control of Stansted, the UK’s third largest airport.