On 29/09/2016 09:32, tim... wrote:
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When did they introduce that? It certainly isn't as obviously marketed
as at Luton.


Paid Fast Track at STN seems to have been introduced in 2011:

http://www.flypark.co.uk/blog/2011/09/08/495/
http://www.btnews.co.uk/article/3920

FWIW, it features prominently on the Stansted airport front page:
http://www.stanstedairport.com/

That's hardly a useful marketing tool IMHO.

Just how many people visit the website of the airport that they are
flying from?

1% 2%, less!


You're right, airports shouldn't have websites. Don't know why they bother.

"Mizter T" wrote in message
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On 29/09/2016 09:32, tim... wrote:
[...]
When did they introduce that? It certainly isn't as obviously marketed
as at Luton.


Paid Fast Track at STN seems to have been introduced in 2011:

http://www.flypark.co.uk/blog/2011/09/08/495/
http://www.btnews.co.uk/article/3920

FWIW, it features prominently on the Stansted airport front page:
http://www.stanstedairport.com/

That's hardly a useful marketing tool IMHO.

Just how many people visit the website of the airport that they are
flying from?

1% 2%, less!


You're right, airports shouldn't have websites. Don't know why they
bother.

I said nothing of the sort

they are obviously useful for the few (percent) that do visit them

And some of these useful visits will be by people who haven't yet decided to
fly (to check which airlines fly to their chosen destination)

But I would bet that most people who have a booked ticket from a particular
airport as part of a package, don't go anywhere near the airport web site.

tim

In message , at 09:33:48 on Sun, 2 Oct 2016,
tim... remarked:

But I would bet that most people who have a booked ticket from a
particular airport as part of a package, don't go anywhere near the
airport web site.

If the airport has more than one terminal, I would always look up where
the flight was departing from. For some reason directly-booked
itineraries rarely tell you, maybe because they think terminal
allocation may change between booking and travel.

The most confusing is when you are flying on a codeshare and the carrier
and the ticket seller operate from different terminals.
--
Roland Perry

On 02/10/2016 09:33, tim... wrote:

"Mizter T" wrote in message


You're right, airports shouldn't have websites. Don't know why they
bother.

I said nothing of the sort

they are obviously useful for the few (percent) that do visit them

Some are. Some aren't. I tend to use them as a starting point for ground
transport information, but (at least in the past) some just said either
"get a taxi from the terminal" or "don't get a taxi from the terminal
because you will be totally and utterly ripped off, instead pre-book a
taxi".


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Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK