LONDON CITY AIRPORT
Work on London City Airport starts in 1986. By October 1987 flights starts operating from London City Airport. The BAe 146 gains 83% support of local residents for it to fly in and out of LCY in 1988. In 1989 the submits plans to extend the runway to allow longger range flights. The work is completed in 1992. Passenger numbers for 1995 past the half million mark. Passenger numbers for 1997 pass one million, an 60% raise from 1996. By 2003 there will be a Docklands Light Railway station serving LCY.

LONDON STANSTED AIRPORT
The origins of Stansted go back to World War Two as an American Air Base. Between then and the '80's Stansted have been many things. After the war it was a RAF base, a freight hub, small airport and civil airport. But in 1983 when the future of Stansted was being discussed the Space Shuttle Enterprise on the back of an 747 landed at Stansted. Over 250,000 people came to see this amazing sight. By 1986 the future of Stansted was decided, it was to became a large international airport. Work started in March 1986. With a terminal building designed by famous architech Sir Norman Foster (also responsible for the new Hong Kong terminal) Stansted was to became London's Third airport. The terminal designed so passenger would only have to walk 150m. Open by HM the Queen Elizabeth II March 15, 1991. The first aircraft to depart was a Air UK BAe 146. Thanks to a motorway to London and a highspeed express railway line to London Liverpool street station (via Tottenham, North London) Stansted has grown and is still growing.