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For further information about membership of the Friends of Liverpool Airport see our "How can I join" page. For general enquiries e-mail: marshallmorris@btopenworld.com . Please enter: FoLA27 plus the date that you send the message in the Subject line otherwise your e-mail will be disregarded as Spam.

Latest News:

Countering the threat of terrorism - increased security measures

As a result of the terrorist incident at Glasgow Airport on Saturday, 30 June 2007, all UK airports have been put on the highest level of alert. Users of our airport will therefore encounter strict new security measures including the presence of armed police. You should not be alarmed at this - these measures have been introduced for your protection and safety. Please go about your business in the normal way and assist the police and security staff by giving your full co-operation. It is suggested you allow extra time if you are travelling out, or meeting someone off a flight, as additional security checks are likely to cause delays. Congestion at the main car park entrance may prove to be a problem at peak times.

No vehicles other than authorised bus and coach services will be allowed anywhere near the front of the terminal building. Black taxis who have been authorised under the new payment scheme can continue to use the dedicated taxi rank but all other black taxis and private hire vehicles will have to use the Short Stay Car Park. These new arrangements, unfortunately, have to apply to vehicles displaying a Blue Disabled Badge. These vehicles will be directed into the Short Stay Car Park in the same way as all other vehicles but any disabled person requiring assistance should make this known to one of the security staff at the car park entrance. Additional staff will be on duty as a result of these increased security measures.

Please check with the airport if you have any particular concerns. This notice will be revised in the light of evolving new practice.

Merseyside Police appeal for your help in looking for anything suspicious whilst in, or around, the airport. Please telephone either 999 or the Anti-Terrorist Hotline on 0800 789 321 if you have any doubts whatsoever about people, packages or vehicles. If you are in the terminal building you can also contact security, the information desk or any member of staff. Click on the picture below for an enlarged view of a poster recently issued by the police.

Roadworks are in operation to improve the A5117 from its junction with the A550 at Woodbank traffic lights (just after the Deeside Industrial Estate and RAF Sealand) to the start of the M56 (Junction 16), a distance of 5 kilometres. Delays can be expected and passengers are advised to allow extra time whilst these improvements are being carried out. The completion date has been provisionally set as Summer 2008. It is worth considering staying on the A55 where it routes to the south of Chester and continuing where it becomes the M53 and, from that, join the M56. This will avoid all the roadworks referred to and may well prove to be a lot quicker at peak times.

Liverpool John Lennon Airport won the prestigious annual "Travel Trades Gazette" award for the best UK airport at a ceremony in London on 13 September 2007. It beat off competition from Manchester, Birmingham, East Midlands, London Luton and Bristol who were the other short-listed airports.

Farancessca Ecsery, UK General Manager for Cheapflights.co.uk who sponsored the award with Liverpool John Lennon Airport's Vic Brodrick, and TV Personality Rob Brydon who hosted the evening.

See details on the Airport Terminal Information page about this new system, designed to speed up access, particularly at peak times, through Security Control upon payment of a £2 fee.

Please see the Liverpool Daily Post and Echo section on the Airline Information - Schedule and Charter page for examples of exciting "one-off" holidays - day trips, short breaks, one and two week holidays and fly/cruises. These holidays are regularly advertised in the Daily Post, Liverpool Echo, Metro and other Trinity Mirror Group newspapers circulating in the area. See also the entry on the same page for similar offers from North Wales Newspapers.

Fred Olsen Cruises are offering a 15 night fly/cruise to the Caribbean on 6 November 2008, flying from Liverpool to Barbados with Thomsonfly. See our Airline Information - Schedule and Charter page for details.

Ryanair - New routes to Malaga and Nantes commenced in April 2008 with Faro, Gdansk, Knock and Szczecin due to start at the end of October 2008. Please see our Airline Information - Schedule and Charter page and Ryanair's own website for full details.

easyJet commenced a new daily service to Jersey from 31 March 2008. Please see details on the Airline Information - Schedule and Charter page.

Flybe commenced a three-times daily service to the Isle of Man on 30 March 2008.

The Liverpool Marriott Hotel South becomes the Crowne Plaza Hotel Liverpool - John Lennon Airport on 1 August 2008. The telephone number remains the same - 0151 494 5000.*

* 5 August 2008:

Speaker to be announced. *

The Committee attempts to obtain a speaker for our meetings but this cannot always be guaranteed. Also, announced speakers sometimes have to withdraw at short notice because of other pressing commitments. The Committee cannot accept any responsibility should a member make a special journey to hear a particular speaker only to find he/she has been forced to withdraw. Every effort will be made to amend the information given in these columns where time permits.

The meetings will be held in the Cavern Suite on Level 2 at 7.45pm.

And finally:

These 17 foot high puppets of the Beatles in their Sergeant Pepper outfits were in attendance at the official unveiling of the Yellow Submarine on 26 July 2005 (MM)

Credits:

The Friends of Liverpool Airport wish to thank:

1. Liverpool John Lennon Airport for its assistance and co-operation

2. Photographs kindly supplied by:-

   Adrian Thompson, Dave Graham, Eddie Quinn, Marshall Morris, Graham Ward, Bill Hodgson, Simon Montgomery, Keith Partington (KP), Kevin Pennington (Kev P), Steven Pearce and Liverpool John Lennon Airport.
   (Their initials appear under each of the photographs)

3. Roy Coates from RapidNet for undertaking the initial work in creating this website.

4. Dave Graham of the North West Air News Group for the frequent task of uploading amendments to this site from information supplied by Marshall Morris, the former Chairman.

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