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Monarch, a leading UK independent airline group, today announces the addition of Stockholm to its network for summer 2017 from Birmingham Airport.

Coventry’s bid to become UK City of Culture is set for international take off thanks to its latest backing. Birmingham Airport is supporting Coventry’s effort to land the prestigious title as a Bid Development Sponsor and joins a host of businesses and organisations behind the city’s bid.

Birmingham Airport has recorded its busiest ever month in its 77 year history with almost 1.3 million passengers recorded in a single month.   

Blue Air, the largest Romanian carrier that started operations earlier this year from Birmingham Airport, is adding another route to its network. The airline will start flights to Larnaca on the south coast of Cyprus from March 2017.

Birmingham Airport is supporting childhood cancer by being part of its awareness campaign.  From the 1st September Birmingham Airport’s Air Traffic Control Tower (ATC) will be lit up gold from dusk to dawn to support a group of parents of children with cancer to raise awareness of children’s cancer. 

Birmingham Airport has recorded the busiest year in its 77-year history, seeing eleven million passengers travel through the Midlands’ global gateway in the last twelve months. This is just a year after breaking the ten million mark last August.

Birmingham Airport recently launched two newly designed and interactive children’s pre-flight play areas giving thousands of youngsters jetting off on holiday a fun and engaging experience in the terminal. 

Birmingham Airport has yet again welcomed over a million passengers in a single month through its terminal.

Low-cost airline Norwegian has entered into a new partnership with No1 Lounges, giving the airline’s loyalty scheme members an enhanced travel experience at greater value from Birmingham Airport.

Passenger figures for the month of June show that Birmingham Airport welcomed over 1.1 million people – giving the Midlands gateway its sixteenth consecutive month of record breaking growth.

Leading leisure airline and package holiday company, Jet2.com and Jet2holidays, are continuing their expansion in the UK with the launch today of flights and holidays from Birmingham Airport, their eighth UK airport base.

Monarch, a leading UK independent airline group, today announces the launch of its Summer schedule for 2017 with flights and holidays now on sale from Birmingham Airport.

Birmingham Airport has awarded Spotlight Stage School, based in North Solihull, with a grant to support them in representing England at the 2016 Dance World Cup in Jersey later this month.

Flybe, Europe’s largest regional airline, has today (22nd June 2016) announced a brand new route between Birmingham and Toulouse-Blagnac airports with daily flights starting on 30th October, providing the only direct service between the two destinations.

Monarch celebrated the launch to two new routes from Birmingham Airport to Lisbon and Madrid last Friday.

Romania’s largest hybrid carrier, Blue Air, has launched three times weekly flights from Birmingham to Cluj, the second largest city in Romania.

Birmingham Airport has recently welcomed another new carrier. Spanish airline, AlbaStar, has launched twice weekly flights between Birmingham and Palma de Mallorca.