Need Home Around LPL
 

Hello All,

I am getting transfered to LPL In March and looking for a funished place to rent big enough for me and my wife. Please Personal Message me if you know of anyone who is renting out places around LPL.

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Thanks

GWY - LPL 4 x weekly by Aer Arran starting 10 April.

No more soggy passengers! Airport to install walkways for the walk-on stands (1-7 & 51-53) to protect them from the elements, also to increase the bussing gates 5-7 by adding a second floor to the building.
Has Luton got walkways yet last time I was there I got drowned!

Will that include the Belfast-bound passengers?

Or, as users of Gates 9/10+, will we continue to get wet?

Only when its raining, sorry couldn't resist it!!
Any of gates 8-20 could use stands 1-7, its only stands 8+ that will continue to have no shelter from the elements after stand 7.

Starting date has been brought forward to 6th April.

LPL - ORK reducing from 7 to 4 flights weekly. New 3 x weekly LPL - KIR. Reduction on ORK due to the increase in charges saga.

Nexus Airways
 

Nexus said to be relaunching in June with flights to Canaries. Believed subject of Channel 4 program on the schoolboy founder. I believe at the moment they are only buying seats on Man flights. Time will tell!:bored:

LIVERPOOL PASSENGER TOTALS for 2005
 

With the recent release of Decembers pax totals by the CAA its possible to tie up some data.

Domestic pax total has for the first time gone through the 1million mark per annum, it should though go back under that figure in 2006 with flyBE's likely abdication.

The best ever net total of pax exLPL of 4,095,325 is made up as:

INTERNATIONAL - 3,089,094 up 44% on 2004
DOMESTIC - 1,006,231 up 22% on 2004
NET TOTAL - 4,095,325 up 38% on 2004

One route that has been doing very well since its start in 1999 is the EZY route to Madrid. Last year it had a loading of over 87% on average. This route must be a contender for an increase in frequency from its current one per day or even an additional carrier to come onto the route.

Did Straw and Rice fly together from LPL to Baghdad or separately, I'm surprised it was such a "surprise" if Straw boarded the same aircraft or was it "away from the media"?

Aircraft was parked on stand 51 on the eastern apron (Tango). Access was through the fire services gate away from the terminal. Not really private but the timing was not published, so it happened quickly and they were gone before the media knew about it.

The next Ryanair press conference at Liverpool JL is to take place tomorrow at 10am to announce 'further major expansion'.

The word is one route that will be announced is Frankfurt Hahn.

I assume these routes will start around September/October time?

LPL, the place to be with ryanair, big expansion of routes.

Algero, Ancona- Italy
Poznan, Wroclaw, Krakow- Poland
Santiago, Santander- Spain
Tampere- Finland
Kaunus- Lithunia
Aberdeen, Inverness- UK

Wow- interesting!

Further to my earlier post the walkway is to be erected to stand 9 not 7 as before. Runway reconstruction starts in October with night closures from 23:45 to 05:45. The land beyond 27 threshold has been levelled so the extention of 500m may be constructed at the same time.

Liverpool
 

The new Ryanair routes from Liverpool are to: Aberdeen, Alghero, Ancona, Inverness, Kaunas, Krakow, Poznan, Santander, Santiago de Compestela, Tampere, Wroclaw.

Most flights will operate 3 times a week except Tampere (4 a week), Aberdeen (Daily) and Inverness (Daily). The new services will commence from 3rd October when the 6th and 7th Boeing 737-800s are to based at Liverpool.

You mean the 5th and 6th, plus one Eirjet A320!! :)

No, I mean 6th & 7th. the EirJet Airbus A320s were only leased until 31st March and the aircraft have now returned to Dublin, or was ir Baldonnell?????

I was only pulling your leg. Will be good to see more FR 737s at EGGP. They look pretty cool with the winglets!

Cheers!

With 32 routes I think this makes Liverpool the No3 Ryanair base behind Stansted and Dublin, pretty impressive figures, since they made Liverpool a base in 2004.

Wonder if Prague will ever be available from Liverpool?

Prague is such a staple destination- it really needs a service from Liverpool. Ryanair doesn't do Prague in the Czech Republic, only Brno- I don't see a big market for Brno flights (hmmmm, I didnt see a big market for Tampere flights either, before today!), so maybe it would have to be an Easyjet route.

I really wonder if Easyjet will retract from Liverpool, in favour of Manchester? Ryanair was little threat until now, by flying to different destinations from Easy. Flying to the same airport of Krakow on the same days has to be a direct challenge- It will be an interesting few months, I reckon!

Maybe easyjet will expand at NCL since ryanair arn't really at NCL yet.

I think the days of easyJet operating from Manchester are as far away as ever unless ej takes over Jet 2 or bmi Baby. All the routes that easyJet would operate are already well covered and I don't see a market for easyJet out of Manchester at the moment:

Manchester to
Malaga (5 airlines), Prague (2 airlines), Alicante (4), Palma (4), Barcelona (2),
Faro (3), Amsterdam (2), Paris (2) etc.

If EZ opened a base at MAN, it is still under contract to retain its services from Liverpool until some year in the future (2017??), so it would probably open more niche routes from MAN than it would be able to from the smaller catchment area of LVL.

From MAN EZ would be more likely to open routes such as Riga, Ljubljana, Tallinn, Dortmund, Istanbul, Bilbao, Split etc, which do not have the same competition, either from existing MAN carriers, or to it LVL services.

Even if EZ did open routes from MAN to Prague, Alicante, Paris, Palma, Nice etc, I'm sure they would have the economies of scale and marketing advantages to compete profitably against the likes of Jet2, BMIBaby, BAConnect and Monarch...

Much as I love LVL, I think EZ would give a better range of destinations with greater frequency, if it focused on MAN instead of LVL! (+ Ryanair poses less of a threat at MAN)

Totally agree with Euroboy.
Would love to see EZY at MAN. This isn't an either/or situation - they could have viable ops at both LPL and MAN; after all they have significant bases at LTN, STN and LGW.

There are some easy (err sorry) pickings to be had at MAN still eg Venice - no operator from anywhere in the NW:confused: (nooo RYR - Treviso is not in Venice) Basel - no operator from MAN despite a proven need - they were 3x daily (until Swiss fell out with Basel) and lots of people who will pay more than tuppence halfpenny to go there (CIBA GEIGY etc). Lisbon would be another no-brainer from MAN, others too.
Just cba going to LPL myself as I'd end up driving past MAN to get there - that would iritate me.

Funnily enough, there is not as much competition out of London for easyJet for Malaga for instance. Out of Stansted ej is the sole carrier on the route and only receive competition from 2 other scheduled airlines at Gatwick. There are already 5 airlines operating from Manchester to Malaga for instance.

For your information Treviso is as close to Venice as Marco Polo. Oh! and Bergamo is closer to Milan than Malpensa.

A catchment area is defined by routes offered rather than the geographical location of Liverpool or Manchester Airport. Liverpool and Manchester have there own local catchment areas for Dublin for instance but Liverpool has a larger catchment area for those wishing to travel to Poland for instance whilst Manchester has a larger catchment area for those wishing to travel to the USA for instance and so on......

oh dear... some people will believe anything that Ryanair tell them. :sad:

There seem to be a lot of armchair travel experts out there in Pruneland!
I know northern Italy very well.
You're completely wrong about Treviso and Marco Polo.
Bergamo Airport is slightly further away from Milan than MXP but it's travel distance and convenience that count here - where MXP wins hands down. Linate is virtually in Milan itself.

I am no armchair travel expert my friend. I have travelled from both Trviso and Marco Polo into Venice and I have travelled from both Bergamo and Malpensa into Milan.

My comments are based on experiences having actually travelled between said airports and destination city and are not based on what Ryanair's say or by sitting at home!

Oh! and the leveller is price. For the great British public price is king. Also, a lot of Milan and Venice residents live closer to the secondary airports as well! I know Linate is in the city centre but then I didn't mention Linate in my comparisons

Milan to Linate 7km, to Bergamo 45km and to Malpensa 50km.

Thank you dwlpl

The arrival last night from Bristol of the eighth based aircraft at Liverpool will enable EZY to the start the new route to Krakow later this afternoon.

Tomorrow will see the start of the Faro and Marseille routes.

..and I didn't mention milan/bergamo in my original post if you'd care to read it. That mentioned Venice.
Posts at half 11 on a Saturday night - no friends? Do you work at passport control on the Runcorn/Widnes bridge?
Local threads for local people eh...the usual warm welcome in Liverpool for all those who dare not to come from Liverpool.
Jeez, you can't even spell Amethyst!
You're still wrong about Treviso/Marco Polo, I lived just outside Venice for 15 months - that's why I know. End of.

Can we please end the bitchy bickering please? This is an aviation forum, where everyone's aviation related comments are welcome and not those posting such comments should not be subject to personal insults!

Whoa! Snide remarks of the repeat kind are not welcome - Smart/a remarks either. I have taken someone off the board for a 'rest' - and that goes for anyone who cannot show respect for the right of reply or opinion. Hope that is clear.

PPP

Exploration boreholes being carried out in car park opposite the main terminal for, it is rumoured, a multi story car park with hotel on top. This will be connected to the main building by a walkway to link up with level 2 by the John Lennon statue.
Pity it will mask the look of the terminal building but that is the price of expansion I suppose!

Liverpool airport are saying that they expect 53,000 passengers through the airport, over the easter holiday period.