Liverpool John Lennon Airport

Liverpool John Lennon Airport
IATA: LPL ICAO: EGGP
Summary
Owner	Peel Group
Operator	Liverpool Airport Ltd.[1]
Serves	Liverpool City Region, North West England, North Wales
Location	Speke, Liverpool, England
Opened	1 July 1933; 90 years ago (1933-07-01)
Focus city for	easyJet Jet2.com Ryanair
Elevation AMSL	81 ft / 25 m
Coordinates	53°20′01″N 2°50′59″W / 53.33361°N 2.84972°W / 53.33361; -2.84972
Website	www.liverpoolairport.com
Map
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Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 09/27 2,285 7,497 Asphalt
Statistics (2023)
Passengers 4,193,076 Passenger change 22-23 20% Aircraft movements 49,436 Movements change 22-23 85%
Sources: UK AIP at NATS[2] Statistics from the UK Civil Aviation Authority[3]

Liverpool John Lennon Airport (IATA: LPL, ICAO: EGGP) is an international airport in Liverpool, England, on the estuary of the River Mersey 6.5 nautical miles (12.0 km; 7.5 mi) south-east of Liverpool city centre.^[2] Scheduled domestic, European, North African and Middle Eastern^[4] 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, it was operated by the Royal Air Force as RAF Speke in World War II. Between 1997 and 2007, the facility was one of Europe's fastest-growing commercial airports, as annual passenger numbers increased from 689,468 to 5.47 million. It was renamed after Liverpudlian musician John Lennon of The Beatles in 2001.^[3] The airport handled 4.19 million passengers in 2023, making it the 12th-busiest airport in the UK.^[5]