NO-FRILLS airline Easyjet saw passenger numbers rise last month.
The second biggest carrier at Liverpool John Lennon airport carried 4.42m passengers in September, compared with 4.2m a year ago, an increase of 5.3%.
Easyjet’s load factor – the number of passengers as a proportion of the number of seats available for passengers – improved by 1.2% to 88.1%.
Overall passenger growth for the rolling 12-month period to September stands at 3.4%, or 45.16m, while the load factor is up 1.4% compared with the previous year.
Last month, Easyjet announced a round of savage cutbacks at six UK airports to control costs in the current depressed market.
It axed 20% of capacity at its home base in Luton, announced the closure of its operation at East Midlands Airport and reduced staffing levels at Belfast, Bristol, Newcastle and Stansted airports.
But its Liverpool operation escaped unscathed.
And the airline even suggested that it could consider further growth out of Liverpool, following the revelation of new expansion plans for the site involving the creation of a new and bigger security suite to reduce delays, and more passenger and retail space.
