One of the UK’s busiest airports has a new transport link — with tickets from £8.99

Depending on where you’re coming from, getting to London Stansted can be a bit of a faff.

Now, that’s all set to change, as a new coach service makes it easier – and cheaper – to travel to the UK’s fourth busiest airport.

Coach company Flibco has launched a service to the Essex hub from Finsbury Park, stopping at Wood Green and Enfield along the way.

It takes around one hour and 30 minutes from Finsbury Park, one hour and 15 minutes from Wood Green, and 45 minutes from Enfield, doing away with the trains, Tubes and buses passengers previously had to switch between.

While coach services like the National Express run from locations including Victoria and Golders Green, the new link makes it easier for North Londoners, specifically, to travel to Stansted.

The new route effectively streamlines travel, saving those who live in Finsbury Park, for example, from taking the Tube to Tottenham Hale for the Stansted Express.

As for Wood Green, passengers bound for Stansted must currently take the Piccadilly Line to Finsbury Park, to change for the Victoria Line. From Tottenham Hale, again, a ticket must be bought for the Stansted Express.

If bought on the day, a single ticket for the Stansted Express can cost as much as £18 from Liverpool Street.

The Flibco bus will be considerably cheaper. Adult single tickets start at £8.99, while children between four and 13 can travel from £5.06.

Those travelling from Tottenham Hale can expect to pay between £13.70 and £15.20 for a single ticket. This leg takes approximately 35 minutes.

And it isn’t the only Stansted service on offer. There’s also another route, which ticks off Stratford, Liverpool Street Station, and Redbridge along the way. Redbridge is only 30 minutes from the airport.

And if your flight is delayed, fear not: all Flibco tickets are valid for any journey on the same day.

As long as you’re on another service by 4am the next morning, you won’t have wasted money shelling out for a new ticket.

Meanwhile, last month, Stansted started charging drivers £10 for a 15-minute regular drop-off, a £3 increase from the previous £7 charge.

And if you stay any longer, you’re looking at a £28 charge.

All London airports are now charging for these short visits after City Airport announced its first-ever fee in January. Gatwick increased the fee to a record-high £10 just before Christmas.

With this in mind, now’s arguably as good a time as any for the new Stansted coach service to be up and running.

Elsewhere in airport news, an airline that operates flights from Gatwick Airport and Stansted Airport has cancelled all flights with immediate effect.

Ascend Airways was a ‘wet-lease’ carrier, meaning it didn’t sell seats directly to passengers – instead, it operated behind the scenes.

Also known as ACMI (Aircraft, Crew, Maintenance and Insurance), they were a short-term supplier of fully-crewed planes, meaning their customers weren’t travellers, but other airlines.

Their previous clients included TUI, Oman Air and Air Sierra Leone.

But now, Ascend are officially giving up their UK Air Operator’s Certificate (AOC), a document that every airline needs in order to operate commercial flights in the UK. They’ll also be returning their fleet of eight aircraft.

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