Getting around LPL
Liverpool John Lennon Airport became, in 2001, the first airport in Britain to take an individual’s name — a tribute to the Liverpool-born Beatle — and the terminal in use today opened the following year with Queen Elizabeth II cutting the ribbon. Everything happens in that one building: there is no second terminal, and by the airport’s own admission there are no jet bridges either, so aircraft parked away from the doors are reached by bus or Ambulift. There is also no railway station on site — the nearest, Liverpool South Parkway, is about three miles off, linked by a bus the airport says runs up to every 7-8 minutes — while the 500 service goes straight into the city centre up to every 15 minutes, day and night. Security here still holds liquids to 100 ml per container, even though the new-style lanes no longer ask for a clear plastic bag. In 2025 the airport handled 5.6 million passengers, up more than 10% on the year before.
