John Lennon Airport forecasts busiest summer since 2012 as school holidays begin

Liverpool John Lennon Airport (LJLA) is preparing to welcome thousands of passengers in the coming weeks as the school holidays get underway.

The airport has forecast around 750k people to pass through its facilities during the next month and a half, with families from the city region and beyond jetting off to over 60 destinations.

The expected figure represents year-on-year growth of about 5%. If achieved, it will be the airport’s busiest summer since 2012.

More than 25k passengers are due to depart from LJLA this weekend alone.

For Summer 2017, 10 new routes have been added to the airport’s destination lineup. Sunshine resorts on the Mediterranean are forecast to be the most popular, particularly Barcelona, Malaga, Alicante and Palma.

High volumes of passenger traffic are also expected on services to Rome and the Algarve.

Robin Tudor, LJLA’s head of PR, said: “The airport is recognised as the region’s faster, easier, friendlier airport and with holidaymakers choosing to take advantage of the many great value for money direct flights from here, we expect this to be one of our busiest summers for some time.

“Whilst queue times at the airport are still some of the shortest around, we do advise that passengers should allow plenty of time to pass through the airport at this particularly busy time as well as leaving plenty of time for their journey to the airport too.”