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Birmingham Airport has started a multi-million-pound programme of development works to improve the passenger journey through the airport terminal.

VLM Airlines will commence flights between Birmingham and Antwerp from 12th February operating a daily service with a Fokker 50 on weekdays. 

TUI adds almost 5000 seats to the Red Sea destination from Birmingham Airport

SSP, a leading operator of food and beverage brands in travel locations worldwide, has opened a new bar and restaurant at Birmingham Airport.

Passenger figures for November show that over 760,000 passengers travelled through Birmingham Airport in the month.

Air India, which already operates a hugely popular daily service to Delhi, plans to introduce two non-stop flights per week to Amritsar from Birmingham Airport. 

After announcing direct flights to New York, Boston and Toronto from Birmingham, Primera Air is adding two more leisure destinations – Mallorca and Malaga.

Passenger figures for October show that over one million passengers travelled through Birmingham Airport – giving a 0.2% growth rate year on year.

Last Monday (30th October 2017), the inaugural Thomas Cook Airlines flight to Marsa Alam in Egypt, departed from Birmingham Airport.

Emirates, a global connector of people, places and economies, commences its second daily A380 service out of Birmingham yesterday (29th October 2017), less than two years after its inaugural A380 flight from the city.

Flybe, Europe’s leading regional airline, quite literally put the spotlight on Birmingham Airport last night (25th October 2017) as it turned the Air Traffic Control (ATC) tower purple, completing its distinctive brand identity throughout the airport.

Thomson and First Choice are pleased to announce increased capacity to the Canaries in response to customer demand for winter holidays as well as circa 63,800 seats for summer 2018.

Primera Air announces the opening of another North America destination from its new base in Birmingham.  Toronto (YYZ) will be served three times per week on a year-round basis.

Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) has announced it will launch twice weekly flights to Stockholm from Birmingham Airport commencing on 30th March 2018.

On the back of announcing 55,000 extra winter seats earlier this week, Jet2.com and Jet2holidays has today added 250,000 summer seats in response to the increased demand at Birmingham Airport.

Jet2.com and Jet2holidays adds over 55,000 winter seats from Birmingham Airport

Keen Twitter users travelling to and from Birmingham Airport can now receive real time flight updates to their account thanks to a new service called ‘FlightSmart’, launched today (Tuesday 26th) .