easyJet is to launch flights to Scotland from Birmingham Airport (BHX/EGBB) for 2020. The short domestic flights will operate initially to Glasgow (GLA/EGPF) and will fly daily with two flights Sunday to Friday and one flight one a Saturday. The airline plans to also start flights to Edinburgh (EDI/EGPH) but [read more]
With Air New Zealand (NZ/ANZ) ending its London to Auckland via Los Angeles service from October 2020, the time has never been better to use your local airport to fly to New Zealand. Direct flights have never (and not likely to be any time soon) an option to New Zealand [read more]
TUI Airways UK (BY/TOM) is adding several new winter routes from UK airports including Bristol, Birmingham, London Gatwick, Edinburgh, London Stansted and Manchester. The new routes include the Icelandic capital Reykjavik, Moroccan hotspot Agadir and the Alpine town of Chambery. Bristol Airport (BRS/EGGD) sees a new service to Memmingen, Germany [read more]
Birmingham Airport has revealed its masterplan to take the airport from its current 13 million passengers per year up to 18 million by 2033. The £500 million project will see the departure lounge in Terminal 1 expanded by 40 per cent and a new mezzanine level added. Additional check-in facilities, [read more]
Birmingham Airport (BHX/EGBB) has been awarded the Star UK airport of 2018 by UK Travel Agents for the fourth time in five years. The Star Awards are awarded by The Travel Bulletin and are the UK travel industry’s most prestigious award and the Midlands airport saw off competition from Bristol, Edinburgh, [read more]
Birmingham Airport (BHX/EGBB) will have a second daily service to Istanbul from March next year when Turkish Airlines doubles its flights from the Midlands airport. From the 31st March 2019 Turkish Airlines will operate a morning flight leaving Birmingham at 10:40 and an afternoon flight leaving at 17:00. The extra [read more]
VLM Airlines has said it will end the Antwerp to Birmingham (BHX/EGBB) service in the “coming weeks” as it seeks to focus on its charter operations. In a press releases by VLM owner, SHS Aviation, the planned service to Manchester (MAN/EGCC) is also postponed until further notice as the airline cuts [read more]
Birmingham Airport (BHX/EGBB) has been named as the UK’s most family friendly airport by Netflights.com. Netflights.com polled 2,000 British families based on their habits and experiences of using airports in the UK with children. Birmingham topped the poll thanks to 80% of its flights leaving on time in June 2018, [read more]
Kurdistan’s first airline, Fly Erbil, will commence flights to the UK next month. The startup airline operated its first flight today flying to Sweden today and will operate from Erbil International Airport (EBL/ORER) in Kurdistan to Birmingham Airport (BHX/EGBB) from the 13th July flying via Kiev (IEV/UKKK). The airline has been supported [read more]
Low-cost long-haul airline Primera Air is suspending transatlantic services from Birmingham Airport due to delays of its new aircraft. Primera Air started flights to New York in May using a leased National Airlines 757 and had planned to start flights to Toronto later this month but it has now suspended [read more]
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