Stansted Airport wants to increase the number of passengers it is allowed to handle each year by eight million.
It expects to reach its current cap of 35 million within five years and has applied for planning permission to raise it to 43 million.
The Essex airport said it could be done by making better use of runway capacity without breaking caps on flight numbers or aircraft noise.
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