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Just two months away from launching its new base in Birmingham, Primera Air has been given a warm welcome by the Midlands’ business community.

Air India and Birmingham Airport has celebrated the launch of a new twice weekly non-stop service to Amritsar.

February will see Wrapchic take its latest voyage to Birmingham Airport offering Indian style street food as well as an extended menu including ‘The Great Indian Breakfast’ and a range of incredibly unique sandwiches and wraps that can accompany passengers on-board.

Birmingham Airport has become the first airport on the UK mainland to fit the revolutionary RoomMate, an audio description unit for the visually impaired, in one of their disabled access toilets. 

Air India is introducing a twice weekly non-stop service to Amritsar from Birmingham Airport with the inaugural flight launching on 20th February 2018. This will be the UK’s only direct service to Amritsar.

Birmingham Airport has recorded its busiest year in its 78 year history seeing almost 13 million passengers pass through its terminal in 2017.

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.