Editing Liverpool John Lennon Airport (section)

==Airport directors==
Captain Harold James Andrews was appointed as the first airport manager in July 1932, and he was effectively the first full-time professional co-ordinator for the whole project. Jack Chadwick took over many of the management functions post-war until 1961. That year there was a traffic increase of 42%, attributed to the first airport marketing campaign initiated by the new airport director, Wing Commander H.W.G.Andrews.<ref>{{cite book|last=Butler|first=Phil|title=Liverpool John Lennon Airport An Illustrated History|year=2008|publisher=Tempus Publishing|isbn=978-0-7524-4511-3|pages=21,74,124}}</ref>

In the late 1960s, Brian Trunkfield was the assistant director, and Keith Porter took over as airport director in the days when The Beatles were regular passengers.<ref>{{cite web|title=Liverpool Parks Police Report - The Airport Constabulary|url=http://www.liverpoolparkspolice.co.uk/PDF/article-liverpool-airport-police.pdf|publisher=FOLA-Friends of Liverpool Airport|access-date=29 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320191617/http://www.liverpoolparkspolice.co.uk/PDF/article-liverpool-airport-police.pdf|archive-date=20 March 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> Chris Preece, a former executive of [[British Aerospace]], was airport director during much of the British Aerospace years of ownership, replaced by Rod Rufus and then Rod Hill, who brought in Direct Holidays, part of the [[MyTravel Group]] on a commercial deal which was to prove the market for [[easyJet]]. [[Neil Pakey]] took over as managing director in 2002, taking the airport through its major passenger growth years.{{cn|date=August 2024}}

On selling the airport to Vancouver Airport Services in 2010, the former operations director for Vancouver Airport, Craig Richmond, took over, and on 1 March 2013, Matthew Thomas, also from Vancouver Airport Services (by then renamed Vantage Airport Group), was appointed to the role.<ref>{{cite news|title=John Lennon Airport Appoint new Chief Executive|url=http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-news/regional-news/2013/01/08/john-lennon-airport-appoint-new-chief-executive-matthew-thomas-99623-32564687/|access-date=29 January 2013|newspaper=Liverpool Daily Post|date=16 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130719122655/http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-news/regional-news/2013/01/08/john-lennon-airport-appoint-new-chief-executive-matthew-thomas-99623-32564687/|archive-date=19 July 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> Andrew Cornish held the CEO position from September 2014 until the end of June 2017.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.liverpoolairport.com/news/2017/06/ljla-ceo-resigns/|title=LJLA CEO resigns|website=Liverpool John Lennon Airport|access-date=22 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180123072209/https://www.liverpoolairport.com/news/2017/06/ljla-ceo-resigns/|archive-date=23 January 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> John Irving became the new CEO with effect from 12 March 2018.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.liverpoolairport.com/news/2018/01/new-ceo-appointed-at-ljla/|title=New CEO appointed at LJLA|website=Liverpool John Lennon Airport|date=12 January 2018 }}</ref>