Passengers from Liverpool John Lennon Airport will be served by global connections for the first time in a decade after the inaugural Lufthansa flight took off.
The German airline will operate four weekly services from Liverpool to Frankfurt, where passengers can then connect to hundreds of destinations across the globe. The inaugural arrival from Frankfurt was marked with an event at the airport on Wednesday (May 4) morning, which saw the Lufthansa plane 'baptised' by engines from Merseyside Fire and Rescue service.
Flights from Liverpool to Frankfurt will take one hour and 40 minutes. After arriving in Germany's finance capital, passengers will be able to connect to Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas from the same terminal.