Liverpool Airport
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Liverpool Airport

The flight information display screens, located on the main concourse, indicate the appropriate check-in for your flight number. Flight tickets and passports will be checked, "hold" baggage weighed and labelled, and a boarding card issued. You will require your boarding card to proceed through security points and when purchasing goods from the tax and duty-free shop. You will also need your passport and boarding card when boarding the aircraft at the gate indicated.

Check-in times for easyJet and Ryanair are from 2hrs to 40 mins before departure. Other airlines may vary, so check with your them or your Travel Agents before the departure date.

Check-in, ticket sales and reservation desks for all scheduled and charter services are all centrally located on the main concourse. Flight information is displayed throughout the terminal building on monitors.

New Tourist Information centre can now be found on the airport's main concourse alongside the airport's Information desk. The area contains information on where to visit and accommodation on Merseyside. The centre also sells some popular Liverpool memorabilia.

Mersey Travel now also have a walk-in information point again situated at the Tourist Information Centre in the centre of the main concourse.

Ticket / Help Desks
All ticket desks are situated opposite the check in desks on the main concourse including: Servisair (see for Ryanair /Euromanx/Jetmagic), easyJet, and British Airways.

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Airport Facts

Liverpool John Lennon Airport (IATA: LPL, ICAO: EGGP) is one of Europe's fastest growing airports, having almost quadrupled its annual passenger numbers from 875,000 in 1998 to just over 3.1 million in 2003.
The airport is located 7 miles south east of the Centre of Liverpool, England, adjacent to the Mersey Estuary.

The Airport
Liverpool John Lennon Airport is one of the UK's oldest operational airports. Speke Airport - its original name - started scheduled flights in 1930, however was 'officially' opened in the summer of 1933. In the thirties, as air traffic from Liverpool was beginning to 'take-off' with high demand for Irish Sea crossings, a passenger terminal and aircraft storage facilities were built.

During World War II, the airport was militarised as RAF Speke.

In 1966, a new runway was opened. It enabled the airport to be open for business around the clock and is to this day. Under the control of five new Merseyside councils, a new passenger terminal was built.

In 2000, work on a £42.5 million modern passenger terminal began, tripling the size and increasing capacity.
2002 saw the airport being renamed in honour of the late John Lennon, a founding member of Liverpudlian band The Beatles, twenty years after Lennon's death. A 7ft bronze statue of the local icon proudly stands overlooking the check-in hall.

On the roof is painted the airport's motto, a line from Lennon's song "Imagine": "Above us, only sky".