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David Cameron has welcomed the announcement that 8,000 jobs will be created in the Midlands as Birmingham Airport expands to cope with increased demand from around the globe.

Birmingham Airport handled over half a million passengers in February 2014, with Dublin, Dubai and Amsterdam proving to be the most popular destinations. 

Birmingham Airport has announced a 12 month partnership with international visa specialist, The Travel Visa Company as it becomes the preferred supplier of business and tourist visas for its travellers. 

Following the Chancellor’s Budget statement to Parliament today (Wednesday 19th March), Paul Kehoe, the CEO of Birmingham Airport has said: 

Birmingham Airport and Marketing Birmingham have become two of the first 100 companies across the UK to be awarded a new Chartermark declaring they are fit to welcome Chinese visitors. 

The Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Maria Miller, has endorsed news that Birmingham Airport will become the country’s first gateway to offer UK charter package tours from China and the first UK airport outside of London to launch direct charter flights to China. 

Birmingham Airport has been voted top in an overall satisfaction survey by the consumer magazine Which? The centrally located Airport beat its peers all over the country to be voted top by rail users. 

Birmingham Airport will bid a fond farewell to the last ever commercial DC-10 flight as it carries passengers for the very last time around the skies of Birmingham, before retiring. 

Air India and Birmingham Airport are celebrating after carrying 50,000 passengers on board over 200 Dreamliner flights between Birmingham and India, since launching in August last year.

Lufthansa is celebrating another record year in Birmingham with the highest number of passengers carried during 2013 in the airline’s history. 

Europe’s leading regional airline announces ‘Magnificent Seven’ new routes including Florence, Cologne and Porto plus extra three jet aircraft to create its biggest ever base and over 1.7 million seats on sale for summer. 

Mitchells & Butlers is delighted to announce that All Bar One will be opening two new bars in Birmingham Airport in 2014. 

Birmingham Airport has recorded a 10.6 per cent passenger increase in January compared to the same month last year; the first time the airport has experienced double digit growth since December 2005.

Birmingham Airport’s re-development programme, one of the country’s top 40 infrastructure projects, has entered its final stage before completion.

Leading regional airline adds extra flights with larger aircraft as part of extensive 2014 Summer schedule.

Birmingham Airport recorded the best overall flight punctuality of any UK airport operating both scheduled and full service charter flights in the third quarter of 2013.

MITIE, the FTSE 250 strategic outsourcing company, has successfully set up a permanent food waste recycling scheme in partnership with Birmingham Airport.

Birmingham Airport is celebrating yet another major milestone, as passenger numbers for the 2013 calendar year reach over nine million for the first time since 2009.