Airport Name and ICAO/IATA Code
Liverpool John Lennon Airport (IATA: LPL / ICAO:EGGP)
Location (City, Country)
Speke (as in speak), Liverpool, Scouseland, England, United Kingdom
Airport Type & Size
International (Mainly European holiday destinations) airport in Liverpool with 1 7,500ft runway, supports 747-400, 4.19 million pax in 2023 (12th busiest in UK).
Why should this airport be added to World of Airports?
An airport for the Merseyside, Wirral and North Wales area. It would be a fun single runway, rather basic airport but with the capabilities to support big aircraft such as the football charter flights for both Liverpool FC and Everton FC. Also has an interesting layout, old airport concourse and museum to the North West and the old terminal now Crown Plaza which could be made part of the airport. Can see the Liverpool water front, Birkenhead and the East Wirral riverside with the industry, Runcorn and the Runcorn Bridge and Mersey Gateway, Helsby and the big hill that’s great for watching planes from and in the distance the cooling towers of Fiddler Ferry power station. It’s also the airport I have had planes landing and taking off, flying over my house since I can remember. Occasionally gets the Belugas landing there if Hawarden is too windy or there’s an issue, could be a contract in the pass.
Major Airlines & Routes
Ryanair (of course it does): Alicante, Barcelona, Bergamo, Budapest, Cork, Dublin, Faro, Kaunas, Knock, Košice, Kraków, Madrid, Málaga, Malta, Paphos, Poznań, Shannon, Sofia, Szczecin, Tenerife-South, Warsaw-Modlin, Wrocław. Seasonally: Bergerac, Corfu, Fuerteventura, Ibiza, Lanzarote, Palma de Mallorca, Porto, Reus, Rome-Ciampino, Rovaniemi, Turin, Zadar
easyJet: Alicante, Amsterdam, Antalya, Barcelona, Belfast-City, Belfast-International, Berlin, Derry, Enfidha, Faro, Fuerteventura, Hurghada, Ronaldsway Isle of Man, Jersey, Lanzarote, Málaga, Malta, Marrakesh, Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Prague, Sharm El Sheikh, Tenerife-South. Seasonally: Almeria, Bodrum, Corfu, Dalaman, Geneva, Gran Canaria, Heraklion, Kos, Kraków, Larnaca, Nice, Salzburg, Split, Vienna
Jet2.com: Alicante, Antalya, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, Málaga, Tenerife-South. Seasonally; Bodrum, Burgas, Corfu, Dalaman, Faro, Heraklion, Ibiza, Kos, Kraków, Malta, Menorca, Palma de Mallorca, Paphos, Prague, Reus, Reykjavík–Keflavík, Rhodes, Vienna, Zakynthos
Aer Lingus: Dublin
Loganair: Ronaldsway Isle of Man Airport
SunExpress: Antalya
Wizz Air: Bucharest-Otopeni, Budapest, Gdańsk, Iași, Katowice, Warsaw-Chopin
Used to operate here:
Lufthansa: Frankfurt
Blue Air: Alicante, Bergamo, Bacău, Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Málaga, Rome-Fiumicino
FlyBe: Ronaldsway Isle of Man, Guernsey, Newquay, Belfast-City, Amsterdam, Edinburgh (Also Stobart Air operated IOM flights for a time)
Widerøe: Bergen
PLAY: Reykjavík–Keflavík
KLM: Amsterdam
STW - Southwind Airlines : Antalya
Dan Air: Bacău
Thomson Airways: Ibiza, Palma de Mallorca, Alicante
Czech Airlines: Prague
Vueling: Barcelona
Eastern Airways: Aberdeen, Southampton
Plus way back when in the 2000s, had the likes of MYT - MyTravel Airways , Euromanx, Air Wales, Aer Arann, VLM, OHY - Onur Air , Air Malta, MON - Monarch , JKK - Spanair , FlyGlobespan (with North American routes) and TNT
Cargo:
Atlantic Airlines: London-Luton
Unique Features or Challenges
Bit windy with the Mersey close by and it being sat on floodplain, can lead to some bad weather coming in off the Irish Sea, storms and the likes. Unique features are the old terminal and taxiway, with a museum.
Optional: Links, images, maps, or videos
Liverpool John Lennon Airport - WikipediaA Brief History Of Liverpool John Lennon Airport - Simple flying so a bit simple
Speke Airport in former days - some old photos
A link to a forum about 707’s at the airport with lots of cool photos
The airport overview with the terminal to the north, control tower to the south,
The old taxiway to connect the old terminal in the far top left of this screenshot,
Aerial view from 2000,
The weird old setup for the bigger runway,
Adding a few bits,
Runway 09 (Note the Control tower to the right and the Fiddlers Ferry cooling towers in the distance on the left),
Runway 27 (The brown Mersey flowing by),
Future plans (by 2050 but we’ll see if the government wants to give the North anything
Overview,
Terminal,
Spotting guide,
Destinations,
The new terminal built in 2002,
The old terminal now a hotel, the museum is in the foreground (being used as an overflow car park in this photo) and has a BAE Jetstream prototype, a Bristol Britannia and some other aircraft on display,
New control tower,
Random images from around the airport,
Lufthansa first arrival,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeivPmS_9VA
747s,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BBmisnaPO0
Finally, a Fairey Swordfish cause why not,
, MAN just has so much more connectivity and there’re no tolls as well.
Also living at Speke Hall must been brilliant. Can see this more as a genetic AirPort.
, it’s a fantastic place to visit. I have, or had, a National Trust membership and went there a couple of times. They have a pleasant walk around the grounds overlooking the Mersey with some benches to sit and watch both the river and the airport. I sat there for a few hours as the planes lifted off over my head. Fabulous place.