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Leading regional airline boosts 2016 Summer programme with new daily year-round flights to key European city.

The Lufthansa Group airlines achieved another passenger record for Birmingham in 2015 with 737,000 people travelling to and from the West Midlands – an increase of five and a half per cent on 2014.

World Duty Free (WDF), a Dufry company, has begun an extensive refurbishment of its tax and duty free store at Birmingham Airport. 

Birmingham Airport has started the year on a high recording a healthy 9% passenger growth rate year-on-year for January 2016 and the busiest January on record.

Thomas Cook Airlines has announced it will base an extra A321 aircraft at Birmingham Airport to support its newly launched Winter 2016 programme.

Leading Regional Airline Boosts 2016 Summer Programme with Three Brand New Routes to Nantes, Rennes–Saint-Jacques and Limoges

Birmingham Airport has celebrated its most successful year to date, handling 10.2 million passengers during the 2015 calendar year – almost 5% more than the previous year.

Wizz Air, the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe, today announced a new route from Birmingham to Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria.

Birmingham Airport is experiencing its busiest festive period on record as almost 400,000 passengers are expected to travel to and from the Midlands based airport over the festive period.

Monarch today has announced its summer 2016 schedule from Birmingham Airport which includes new direct flights to Madrid and Lisbon.

Turkish Airlines, one of Birmingham Airport’s fastest growing airlines, has signed a global sponsorship deal with UEFA EURO 2016 making it the first airline partner in the 55-year history of the European Football Championship.

Wizz Air, the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe, today operated its first maiden flight between Birmingham and Poznan in Poland.

Emirates has announced that it will be upgrading its EK39/40 service between Dubai and Birmingham to an Airbus A380 from 27th March 2016. 

Birmingham Airport has celebrated another month of record breaking passenger figures with November revealing 7.1% growth year-on-year.

Thomson and First Choice have announced their winter 2016 flying programme from Birmingham Airport which includes a new winter route to Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

Paul Kehoe, CEO of Birmingham Airport, has today urged the Government to put forward a strategy for making best use of existing airport capacity, in the wake of the Government’s delay on a new South East runway.

KLM have announced a sixth additional weekday service from Birmingham Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol for summer 2016, providing an extra 32,100 seats for passengers.