Yesterday (Monday) a bunch of protesters broke through the fences at Stansted airport and blocked the runway for a couple of hours. In all some 50 flights had to be cancelled.
This may be old news, but I just ran across the news at Ryanair with a rather blunt statement
UPDATE-2:30 pm
Ryanair flights are now operating as normal to and from Stansted Airport.The airport opened at 08:06, after police removed protestors who began demonstrating on the airport taxiway five hours earlier at 03:00 hours.
The closure of Stansted Airport this morning has forced Ryanair to cancel 52 flights out of and into Stansted airport. Passengers booked on these flights can rebook free of charge until 11th December for travel up to 15th December 2008 as detailed below.
Ryanair has called on BAA Stansted to explain why protestors were able to breach Stansted security at 03:00 am this morning and why it took Stansted over 5 hours to remove them from the taxiway. Ryanair renews its call for the break up of the BAA monopoly and the sale of Stansted in order to improve customer service and these BAA cock ups.