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Thomas Cook Airlines has announced it will fly from Birmingham Airport to Cape Verde for winter 2017 for the first time.

Flybe, Europe’s largest regional airline, has started operating its 2016-17 Winter schedule that features a total choice of up to 375 flights a week from its Birmingham hub across 23 routes including brand new daily flights to Toulouse and a weekly Saturday ski service to Geneva.

Birmingham Airport has raised £12,000 for its charity partner, Acorns Children’s Hospice, through adventurous employees taking part in a sponsored abseil.

Birmingham Airport is celebrating its nineteenth consecutive month of record breaking growth having seen its busiest September on record.

Birmingham Airport has jumped on board with a new children’s literature project that aims to empower children across the world, working with local author and businesswoman Alison Delaney, founder of Little Bird.

Birmingham Airport today announced that it is investing £100 million on improvements to its facilities and infrastructure, including hold-baggage screening, self-service check-in, surface access, additional car parking and air traffic control.

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.