Airport sees 5% passenger rise in October

Passenger numbers at Liverpool John Lennon Airport (LJLA) continued to grow at the start of the Winter season, it reported today.

The airport enjoyed a rise of 5% in traffice during October, compared with October 2017, with many passengers and families taking advantage of the choice of flights to a range of overseas destinations during the school half term.

During October more than 467,000 passengers travelled through LJLA – an increase of around 22,000 compared with the previous year, with growth for the year-to-date now reaching 135,000 additional passengers.

Some of the most popular destinations included a mix of holiday resorts and European capital cities, such as Alicante, Malaga, Palma, Rome, Dublin, Amsterdam and Paris.

Queue times for passengers to get through airport security continued to remain low throughout October, too, with 99% of all passengers taking 10 minutes or less to pass through security.

Last month also saw five new services start from Liverpool.

These included reoutes to Cluj, Iasi and Bucharest with Wizz Air, to Paphos with Ryanair, and to Toulouse with easyJet, in addition to Ryanair announcing new routes to Copenhagen and Corfu from Liverpool for Summer 2019.

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