Liverpool airport has just announced that it has had over 3million passengers travel through it in the last 12 months. This would be the first time that Liverpool have hit this amount.
Its quite an achievement for an airport that not all that long ago only had scheduled flights to Dublin, IOM and Belfast City, and few charter flights.
Blackpool now also seems to be growing with Ryanair to Dublin and Stansted, FlyBE to Belfast, Keenair to IOM and a few regular charter services.
By: carl727uk - 19th April 2003 at 17:51
Im not sure about apron space, it has been extended over the year, im sure they will continue to do so if required, certainly land is not too much of a problem. Liverpool has handled many types of wide-bodies, infact MyTravel were using a DC-10 last summer for extra capacity regularly. Years ago when Wardair were flying they also used the same type on a Toronto service. The runway length is 7,500 ft which is a bit longer than Birmingham’s, its probably adequate at present.
By: mongu - 19th April 2003 at 13:45
Does LPL have enough apron or runway capacity for much more expansion? It seems to suffer the Leeds-Bradford problem.
It looks pretty maxed out on the apron at times, and I think the runway is suitable for narrow bodies only.
By: carl727uk - 19th April 2003 at 11:46
Routes from Liverpool are to Europe and across the Irish Sea. Direct Holidays ran a charter to Orlando for one season, but gave it up. I think the problem was too much capacity at the time to Florida (Laker had come back on the scene,and also VS from MAN) as well as tieing up their 757 aircraft to long, rather than several short hops to the Med.
By: MSR777 - 19th April 2003 at 11:45
Good news for the regional airports. Personally I would rather see growth at these airports than the relentless saturation here in the south/south east.
By: carl727uk - 19th April 2003 at 11:41
I think Ryanair seems to have a love/hate relationship with MAN. The FR service to DUB from LPL is well supported, infact I tried to book tickets to fly over to Dublin in August to see a concert. The fares were high, then the next time I looked the flights week full, so now im on the Seacat ! I would expect the Blackpool route to ok and I think FR have made noises about using Carlise, although that maybe a Stansted route.
By: EGNM - 18th April 2003 at 13:49
what would the competition be like on the Dublin to Liverpool/Blackpool/Liverpool routes be like with Ryr – whenever the MAN services were reduced, LBA went back up to 4x daily – and when MAN went bakc up to 5x LBA went down to 1x! – we’re now back to 4x btw now!
By: T5 - 17th April 2003 at 21:18
Good news. What destinations are currently served by the airport – is it just British and European?
By: Pembo330 - 17th April 2003 at 16:56
Great news for local airports Carl; I just hope we can catch LPL up now we have their investors and BMI Baby on the way! 🙂
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