The Airport Operator | Summer 2026
26 June 2026
Liverpool John Lennon Airport’s CEO, John Irving, is predicting that the airport will exceed six million passengers within a year following a record-breaking 2025.
He told The Airport Operator he expects that a combination of new routes and more frequency on existing routes “will help drive us to over six million passengers in the next 12 months”. Last year over 5.6m passengers passed through the airport, exceeding the highest number previously recorded in 2007, when the total was over 5.5m, and he predicted that “we are well set to break that record this year”.
Irving said that last year’s record had “predominantly been driven by our three main carriers – easyJet, Ryanair and Jet2. We had an extra easyJet aircraft and an extra Jet2 aircraft in 2025, which, alongside Ryanair, took us to our best-ever based aircraft volume. We had 18 aircraft based out of Liverpool in 2025, significantly more than the 12 we had pre-Covid”...
