{"id":813851,"date":"2026-10-25T22:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T22:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/813851\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T22:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T22:38:09","slug":"long-queues-after-power-surge-at-stansted-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/813851\/","title":{"rendered":"Long queues after power surge at Stansted Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Passengers arriving at Stansted Airport have described waiting in long queues to reach immigration control after a power surge shut down its systems. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Traveller Jill Stakem reported the airport&#8217;s internal tram system had failed earlier and people were &#8220;being held in a corridor for over 90 minutes&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stakem added: &#8220;It&#8217;s horrendous. No communication, no seating for people, no-one offering watering.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a statement, a spokesperson for Stansted Airport said: &#8220;Due to a power surge earlier today that affected the airport and local area, a number of airport systems were temporarily impacted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They added: &#8220;All systems are now back in service with operational teams working hard to provide support to passengers on their journeys through the airport.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Another airport spokesperson confirmed the shuttle service &#8220;remained out-of-service due to a technical fault and contingency bussing is in operation to transfer passengers between the terminal and gates&#8221;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Passengers arriving at Stansted Airport have described waiting in long queues to reach immigration control after a power&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":813852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-813851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}