Liverpool John Lennon Airport
Liverpool City Region, North West England, North Wales
- IATALPL
- ICAOEGGP
- Serves
- Liverpool City Region, North West England, North Wales
- Operator
- Liverpool Airport Ltd.
- Owner
- Ancala Partners 94.2%, Liverpool City Council 5.8%
- Opened
- 1 July 1933
- Elevation
- 81 ft (25 m)
- Runways
- 1 (longest 2,286 m)
- Airlines based here
- Not recorded
- Website
- Not recorded
About the airport
Liverpool John Lennon Airport (IATA: LPL, ICAO: EGGP) is an international airport serving Liverpool, England, on the estuary of the River Mersey 7.5 miles (12 km) south-east of Liverpool city centre. Scheduled domestic, European, North African and Middle Eastern services are operated from the airport. The airport comprises a single passenger terminal, three general use hangars, a FedEx Express courier service centre as well as a single runway measuring 7,500 ft (2,286 m) in length, with the control tower south of the runway. Originally called Speke Airport, as it is still colloquially known, it was operated by the Royal Air Force as RAF Speke in World War II. Between 1997 and 2007, annual passenger numbers increased from 689,468 to 5.47 million. It was renamed after Liverpudlian musician John Lennon of the Beatles in 2001. The airport handled 4.19 million passengers in 2023, making it the 12th-busiest airport in the UK.
This summary is adapted from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike Licence. Passenger and runway figures come from the same source and can lag the latest annual totals, so check the figures the operator publishes for the current total.