Stansted Airport.

I have only been through it once but it is nothing like LGW--way smaller and easy to navigate.

There is only one terminal at Stansted, as opposed to 2 at Gatwick. Stansted handles 28 million passengers a year, whilst Gatwick has 48 million a year, so per terminal, Stansted is busier. I sometimes have to wait at Stansted for checked baggage, but not usually at Gatwick. I haven't used Stansted for a couple of years, as I live closer to Gatwick, but a friend uses Stansted regularly and says he prefers it to Gatwick, albeit it has got slower over the past 5 years as traveller numbers have increased.

The navigation issue is the long winding route out of the duty free shop you are dumped in after security.

Thanks to all. Kathy