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In 1990 ownership of Liverpool Airport was privatised, with British Aerospace taking a 76% shareholding in the new company. Subsequently the airport has become a wholly owned subsidiary of Peel Holdings Ltd. In 2000, work on a Ł42.5 million modern passenger terminal began, tripling its size and passenger capacity, and this development was completed in 2002. There have since been further extensions. The airport's strategy is to cater largely for 'low cost' operators, and consequently the layout of the terminal and gates requires passengers to walk unprotected from the weather to and from passenger aircraft. Destinations served are located throughout Europe, the 2007 scheduled services to the USA and Canada having been withdrawn.
2002 saw the airport being renamed in honour of John Lennon, a founding member of the Liverpudlian group the Beatles, twenty-two years after Lennon's death. A 7 ft (2.1 m) tall bronze statue of the local icon stands overlooking the check-in hall. On the roof is painted the airport's motto, a line from Lennon's song "Imagine": "Above us, only sky". In 2005 the Yellow Submarine, a large-scale work of art, was installed on a traffic island at the entrance to the airport.
In late 2006, the now defunct airline Flyglobespan began daily flights from John Lennon Airport to Tenerife South Airport, the Canary Islands, Spain and the airport's first long haul flights to John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport near Toronto, Canada and John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, in the United States. Although they proved fairly popular, a long series of problems with the service led to it being abandoned the next year.
In September 2006 reconstruction started on the main runway and taxiways. This was the first time the runway had been reconstructed (as opposed to resurfaced) since it was opened in 1966. This work was completed in 2007. In addition to runway and shoulder work was the upgrade of the 40 year old airfield group lighting with a new system, intended to upgrade the runway to ILS Category III standards. In 2007 Liverpool Airport started the construction of a new multi-level car park and a budget Hampton by Hilton Hotel with an overhead bridge to the main terminal. In 2009 a announcement came from Peel Airports Group that they are considering new investors to continue its investment at its airports. The proposed developments for Liverpool Airport will see improvements in retail by creating additional shop units and a more advanced security area aiming at reducing waiting times. The new facilities are due to be completed in autumn 2010.
A master plan is in place to be completed by 2030 which plans for the airport to grow significantly. This includes, new terminal buildings as well as the introduction of permanent long-haul services.
By road, the airport is readily accessible by the M53 and M56 motorways via the A533 / Runcorn Bridge to the south, and the M57 and M62 motorways via the Knowsley Expressway to the north of the airport.
The airport does not have its own railway station. The nearest railway station is Liverpool South Parkway railway station, from which there are regular bus shuttle services to the airport. The station provides frequent rail services to central Liverpool, Crosby, Hunts Cross and Southport, on the suburban Merseyrail network, together with longer distance direct links to Manchester, Birmingham, Sheffield, Nottingham, Grantham, Peterborough and Norwich on the National Rail network.
There are also regular bus services linking the airport with the surrounding urban areas. Express shuttle services also operate to Liverpool and Manchester.
Two of the biggest operators from the airport are Easyjet and Ryanair, Easyjet operates to Alicante, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Belfast-International, Berlin-Schönefeld, Bodrum [begins 11 June:seasonal], Bordeaux [seasonal], Dubrovnik [seasonal], Faro, Fuerteventura, Geneva, Ibiza [seasonal], Innsbruck [seasonal], Isle of Man, Jersey, Kraków, Lanzarote, Lisbon [seasonal], Madrid, Málaga, Malta [begins 13 June], Minorca [seasonal], Naples, Nice, Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Rhodes [begins 12 June]
While Ryanair opertates flights to Alicante, Arrecife, Agadir, Belfast-City, Bergerac [seasonal], Bratislava, Bremen, Bydgoszcz [seasonal], Carcassonne, Cork, Derry, Dublin, Faro, Fuerteventura, Girona, Grenoble [seasonal], Ibiza [seasonal], Kaunas, Knock, Kraków, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Limoges, Lodz, Málaga, Milan-Orio al Serio, Murcia, Nîmes [seasonal], Oslo-Torp, Palma de Mallorca, Pisa [seasonal], Porto [seasonal], Poznan, Reus, Riga, Rimini, Rome-Ciampino, Rzeszów, Seville [seasonal], Shannon, Stockholm-Skavsta, Szczecin, Tenerife-South, Trapani, Venice-Treviso, Wroclaw