Ryanair slashes number of Stansted flights

Ryanair today announced it was slashing the number of flights it will operate from Stansted airport this winter.

The no-frills airline is reducing the number of weekly flights at the airport in Essex , England by 30% between October 2009 and March 2010.

This amounts to a 40% reduction in capacity as Ryanair will cut the number of aircraft at Stansted from 40 this summer to 24 in winter 2009/10.