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Does anyone know more about the big announcement supposed to be made tomorrow, with the date being quite deliberate? CO to EWR has been discussed before, or do Y2 have desires on more links into SFB? Considering that LPL has seen most growth on the leisure market, my money would be on the latter, but either would be very interesting, if that's what is happening.
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Maybe its to repackage the airport back to Liverpool Airport, more or less, five (?) years to the day from it being named Liverpool John Lennon Airport?
Or maybe its the unveiling of the Masterplan?
Or maybe its the unveiling of the Masterplan?
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OK, right airline, wrong destination. New York is a huge market, but much of CO's traffic is for onward connections, so is the plan here to tap into a fair slice of MAN's pie too? Daily is ambitious, but then again so was daily to SFB from GLA. How much positioning is going to be needed to support long haul routes from MAN, LPL and GLA, or will they have 3 a/c by then?
"Maybe its to repackage the airport back to Liverpool Airport, more or less, five (?) years to the day from it being named Liverpool John Lennon Airport?"
DWPL, I think that the Lennon connection will have been a useful factor in helping attract more business from the other side of the pond.
"Maybe its to repackage the airport back to Liverpool Airport, more or less, five (?) years to the day from it being named Liverpool John Lennon Airport?"
DWPL, I think that the Lennon connection will have been a useful factor in helping attract more business from the other side of the pond.
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DWPL, I think that the Lennon connection will have been a useful factor in helping attract more business from the other side of the pond.
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I don't think that's entirely true. There is a difference between using 'branded' names when using radio transmissions, etc as opposed to 'proper' names which has the potential to cause confusion to those not familiar with the name change. That should in no way affect the commercial aspects of rebranding an airport to raise its profile to the travelling public.
The CAA have said that for airports such as Liverpool John Lennon, they will be referred to in all official CAA correspondence by its official title, not its branded title.
The CAA have said that for airports such as Liverpool John Lennon, they will be referred to in all official CAA correspondence by its official title, not its branded title.
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Liverpool - Orlando could be on the cards, it was reported in last nite's Liverpool Echo that if Liverpool - New york is a success, Globespan have hinted that Orlando could be next, also reported is that Globespan are more than happy with sales on new routes to Tenerife & Prague.
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Any news on the announcement yet? I havn't seen anything.
I would have thought a daily flight to NYC is highly ambitious, when faced with MAN's double daily from CO, daily by BA and DL and PK frequencies on top! It might have been wise to operate the route 5x weekly with a 2x weekly to Toronto, or Boston even. Even so, they seem like a switched on airline, choosing its markets very sensibly in my opinion.
LPL has been screaming out for a LCC like GSM. They will surely be successful in operating some slightly longer leisure routes, such as Cyprus, Greece and the Canaries, which are beyond the traditional reach of EZ and FR. Hopefully we will see Orlando soon. Good luck to the airline.
I would have thought a daily flight to NYC is highly ambitious, when faced with MAN's double daily from CO, daily by BA and DL and PK frequencies on top! It might have been wise to operate the route 5x weekly with a 2x weekly to Toronto, or Boston even. Even so, they seem like a switched on airline, choosing its markets very sensibly in my opinion.
LPL has been screaming out for a LCC like GSM. They will surely be successful in operating some slightly longer leisure routes, such as Cyprus, Greece and the Canaries, which are beyond the traditional reach of EZ and FR. Hopefully we will see Orlando soon. Good luck to the airline.
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The draft Masterplan consists of;
Terminal facilities to handle 8.3million pax by 2015, 12.3million pax by 2030, currently just gone through 5million pax MAT. Main terminal extension (with piers also) with finger extensions both to the east and west of the main terminal building.
Runway extended to 9022' and to include starter strips at both ends. Parallel taxiway to the north of runway lengthened to include the new runway extension. New parallel taxiway to the south.
Apron extension will be practically the full length of the extended runway. New apron to the south of the new southern taxiway.
New cargo centre (named World Cargo Centre) forecast to handle 220,000 tonnes to be built to the south of the runway. It must be remembered that the airports owners, Peel, also now owns the Port of Liverpool (MDHC) and expects to see greater synergy between the airport and seaport.
New airport only access road to link into the Ford Road/A5300 Knowsley Expressway (this is the continuation of the M57).
Costs is said to be £600million.
Terminal facilities to handle 8.3million pax by 2015, 12.3million pax by 2030, currently just gone through 5million pax MAT. Main terminal extension (with piers also) with finger extensions both to the east and west of the main terminal building.
Runway extended to 9022' and to include starter strips at both ends. Parallel taxiway to the north of runway lengthened to include the new runway extension. New parallel taxiway to the south.
Apron extension will be practically the full length of the extended runway. New apron to the south of the new southern taxiway.
New cargo centre (named World Cargo Centre) forecast to handle 220,000 tonnes to be built to the south of the runway. It must be remembered that the airports owners, Peel, also now owns the Port of Liverpool (MDHC) and expects to see greater synergy between the airport and seaport.
New airport only access road to link into the Ford Road/A5300 Knowsley Expressway (this is the continuation of the M57).
Costs is said to be £600million.
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Forgot to post that yesterday, 12th July, the first revenue flights of the first Liverpool based easyJet Airbus 319.
The aircraft positioned in Wednesday evening from Hamburg Finkenwerder.
The aircraft positioned in Wednesday evening from Hamburg Finkenwerder.
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Eastern Europe
Ryanair have said that in their next expansion at Liverpool they we introduce a number of new eastern European routes.
http://iccheshireonline.icnetwork.co...name_page.html
Also heard that Liverpool - Brussels Charleroi will be reintroduced but possibly in the next expansion of Charleroi (2007), thus using a Brussels based aircraft.
http://iccheshireonline.icnetwork.co...name_page.html
Also heard that Liverpool - Brussels Charleroi will be reintroduced but possibly in the next expansion of Charleroi (2007), thus using a Brussels based aircraft.
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If Ryanair want to join the dots, then this leaves very few airports in Central and Eastern Europe that they don't already serve from LPL- Brno, Balaton and Bratislava, plus a few extra cities in Poland- I doubt there is enough Czech or Hungarian workers in the northwest to provide the VFF traffic that LPL attracts on its Poland routes. I think Bratislava could work, due to its proximity to Vienna, but Wizzair have already indicated that they will serve BTS from next year. This leaves only Poland, which must be close to saturated with 3 carriers, serving Warsaw, Krakow, Katowice, Gdansk, Wroclaw and Poznan.
I never seem to understand FR logic (how the hell can they make Tampere, Alghero and Ancona work?!), but surely it would make more sense to serve Frankfurt, Brussels, Eindhoven etc first before launching more routes to eastern europe which don't attract business travellers so much as lower yeilding returning-home Polish workers.
I never seem to understand FR logic (how the hell can they make Tampere, Alghero and Ancona work?!), but surely it would make more sense to serve Frankfurt, Brussels, Eindhoven etc first before launching more routes to eastern europe which don't attract business travellers so much as lower yeilding returning-home Polish workers.
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Milano Bergamo
What? Like Ryanair are axing Liverpool to Milan apparently (see Ryanair thread), but then they still fly Liverpool - Ancona for example 
How weird is that?
I would expect LPL - BGY to be reintroduced in the next FR expansion at LPL in 2007.
How weird is that?I would expect LPL - BGY to be reintroduced in the next FR expansion at LPL in 2007.