Liverpool Airport
Liverpool Airport – some key information:
Some news about Liverpool airport can be found at Liverpool Airport News
at a press conference on 12 July 2006. Documents can be found at: http://www.liverpoolairport.com/about-us/master-plan.html
Local community group
Save Oglet Shore & Greenbelt (SOSAG)
Speke, Liverpool UK
“We are a group campaigning to save Oglet, its surrounding greenbelt land and access to the shore in Speke from being destroyed by the proposed development of Liverpool Airport.
Oglet Shore and Greenbelt runs adjacent to Liverpool Airport, North West from Dungeon Lane in Speke. The fields that lie between the airport runway and the shore are designated Greenbelt and Grade One agricultural land and maybe the last truly rural area in Liverpool. It is an SSSI, SPA and Ramsar site of international importance for the wetland birds that live there.
Yet this beautiful area, with its woods, ponds and streams, home to bats and many Red list, endangered, farmland birds, and a vital habitat in an increasingly built up area, is due to disappear under concrete if the Liverpool Airport development goes ahead. Our aim is to stop this development.”
https://speke8.wixsite.com/oglet
from 5 million passengers per annum (mppa) in 2006 to around 8.3 mppa by 2015
and 12.3 mppa by 2030 (see Chapter 6).”
additional long haul services to a range of destinations in North America and
the Middle and Far East.” (There may in future be a case for extending the runway
to around 2,700m if required for long haul charter and freight operations&rquot;:
‘The Future of Air Transport’, Department for Transport, (2003), para. 8.20.
5,724 tonnes in 2006 to 40,000 tonnes in 2015 and then as much as 220,000 tonnes
– including mail -by 2030, with land set aside on an area called the Oglet, for
such freight development. So much freight, they claim, would require a runway
extension. Details – Chapter 6 of Master Plan.
Passengers using Liverpool airport: (thousands)
2006 – 4,962
2007 – 5,463
2008 – 5,330
2009 – 4,879
2010 – 5,008
2011 – 5,247
2012 – 4,459
2013 – 4,186
And passenger growth and numbers over the past 15 years. http://www.awsw.co.uk/allco2/LPL_co2.html
CAA figures: CAA aviation statistics
Terminal Passengers:
UK Airport Statistics: 2012 – annual (Table 10.3) Terminal Passengers 2002 – 2012
2008 5,330 (down -2% on 2007)
2007 5,463
2006 4,962
2005 4,409
2000 1,978
1996 618
Air Traffic Movements
UK Airport Statistics: 2012 – annual (Table 4.2) ATMs 2002 – 2012
2009 42 (down – 4% on 2008)
2008 44 (down 5% on 2007)
2007 46
2006 48
2005 49
2000 30
1996 23
Air Freight
UK Airport Statistics: 2012 – annual (Table 13.2) Freight 2002 – 2012
2012 130 (down – 23% on 2011)
2011 168 ( down – 37% on 2010)
2009 264 (down – 93% on 2008)
2008 3,740 (up 1% on 2007)
2007 3,709
2006 5,724
2005 8,521
2000 28,628
1996 27,301
Airport Contact Details:
Administration Offices, Liverpool John Lennon Airport, Liverpool L24 1YD
2006 17.8%
2007 15.1%
2008 15.3%
Business Aviation: Number of business flights (= private jets)
CAA statistics, annual figures – Table 3.1
2007 2,177
2008 3,592