What this site requires, although it would be in the 'Nostalgia Section' is a data-base of all scheduled service routes since, say, 1961 (when the Airport came under the control of the Liverpool City Council). To go earlier would require details of BEA, Cambrian and Starways ops, some of which are already disappearing into the mists of time.
Actually, until BMA arrived in 1978 the rate of route change was fairly slow, accelerating in the early 1980s with Commuter operators such as Genair/Eastern, Manx, Air Ecosse, Jersey European, Emerald etc. If anyone fancies having a go at recording all the scheduled routes served from Liverpool pre 2000, I'd be more than happy to lend a hand.
However, created by '8miles27' there is an excellent, but it appears little referred to, listing of
ALL scheduled service airlines and destinations/dates served from Liverpool Airport in the period 2000-2018 already on this Forum.
derbosoft.proboards.com/thread/30101/tables-scheduled-airlines-routes-onwardTrue, it could currently do with updating - a process made really complex by the aviation transportation 'lock downs' during the Covid Years. Much has happened in the past 6 years.
The Euroceltic Waterford memories recalled on this Ryanair thread here, were already briefly factually covered in the thread linked above. To set the record straight and add detail to outline memories:
RYANAIR on the Waterford route.
Ryanair commenced a once weekly Liverpool-Waterford service on Saturday
2nd June 1990, with ATR-42 EI-BYO operating the inaugural service. The ATR-42 service operated once weekly as RYR 702/703 on Saturday evenings, LPL arr 18:15, dep 18:55. The final service was on Saturday
22nd October, co-incidentally also by EI-BYO (Ryanair had 3 ATR-42s EI-BXR, EI-BXS and EI-BYO). While it was hoped at the time that the summer only service would return in 1991, it didn't after a winter of rising fuel prices.
EMERALD on the Waterford route
Emerald of Liverpool Airport commenced a Saturday and Sunday Waterford service on
28th July 1997 using their HS.748-2 passenger aircraft. The service was not a particularly great success, in part due to only a month between announcement and commencement of flights. Even so plans were released in early 1998 for both a Waterford service (early May to September) and Galway (early July-September), however the loss of passenger fitted G-OJEM in March 1998 put Emerald an aircraft short, so neither route operated that summer.
EUROCELTIC on the Waterford route.
Euroceltic operated the Waterford link from Liverpool John Lennon Airport in the period
November 2001 to January 2002 with Fokker F-27 Friendship 500s and again with Fokker 50s
November 2002 to January 2003, when the airline ceased operations. Reference back to the 'paper' NWAN Liverpool Monthly movements for those months show in more detail that:
Waterford service commenced on Friday 9th November 2001 twice weekly (Friday, Monday) with F-27 aircraft, in addition to their already operating 3 x daily Mon-Fri with less at weekends, Luton service. Due in large part to expensive work being required on one of their F-27s, after an unsatisfactory period for the airline of leasing-in aircraft the Luton-Liverpool service ceased on 6th January, however the Liverpool-Waterford-Liverpool link did continue for a further few weeks until it too ceased on Monday 21st January 2002. For the record their F-27s were G-ECAH and G-ECAT, their ICAO 3-letter code ECY.
Under new Irish based ownership Euroceltic returned from Friday 1st November 2002 with just two services per week, using the same ICAO code 'ECY'. On a Friday operating Waterford-Liverpool-Luton and on a Sunday Luton-Liverpool-Waterford. The flights aimed at Irish football fans supporting North-West and North London teams. The service being operated by leased-in Fokker 50s, the inaugural flight by Newair F.50 OY-EBB and later in the month OY-EBG (along with just one rotation by Aer Arann's ATR-42 EI-CBK on 15/11). In December and January just Fokker 50s OY-EBD, OY-EBG and OY-MMS were used and there were weather disruptions. The service fizzled out, with the final flight being made on Sunday 12th January 2003.