Thanks to an increase in routes from airlines including easyJet and Ryanair, LJLA handled and additional 22,000 passengers during the month. Tony McDonough reports

Passenger numbers at Liverpool John Lennon Airport (LJLA) were up 5% in October with more than 467,000 people passing through during the month.

Thanks to an increase in routes from airlines including easyJet and Ryanair, LJLA handled and additional 22,000 passengers in October bringing the total extra for the year so far to 135,000 passengers.

Some of the most popular destinations included a mix of holiday resorts and European capital cities including Alicante, Malaga, Palma, Rome, Dublin, Amsterdam and Paris.

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Queue times for passengers to go through airport security continued to remain low throughout October too, with 99% of all passengers taking 10 mins or less to pass through security.

Last month also saw five new services start from Liverpool to Cluj, Iasi and Bucharest with Wizz Air, to Paphos with Ryanair and to Toulouse with easyJet, in addition to Ryanair announcing new routes to Copenhagen and Corfu from Liverpool for summer 2019.

In August LJLA enjoyed its busiest month in seven years, handling more than 535,000 passengers. It was a 3% rise on August 2017.