Blackpool Airport being the centre of Low-cost airlines, declares to increase their services in its motivated growth plan. This declaration would be a direct boost for the low-cost airlines also, and it is possible that more flights are planned by the airlines from Blackpool Airport.

An increase of passenger traffic from 555,000 this year to 1.7 million by 2010, and 3.4 million by 2030, is indicated in the airport's master plan. A replacement terminal has been earmarked for construction in 2011 to accommodate the added passengers in the Airport.

Slashing of key routes from Blackpool this year (to London Stansted, Prague and Amsterdam) has not deterred Gareth Kennedy, the airport's commercial director who affirms that new routes are being followed. 

"The majority of the growth we think will come from our existing providers, Jet2, Ryanair and Manx2.

"We see an exciting future for Blackpool. We will always be third in the region behind Liverpool and Manchester, but we are the closest airport in the north-west for three million people and that is a major factor", he told The Blackpool Citizen.

The number of people employed at the site are arranged to add from 390 to more than 2,000 by 2015 in the development plan, with transformations to the nearby Squires Gate railway station also being well thought- out.

A £2 million restoration of the passenger terminal had been completed the previous year.