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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.

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

The Midlands airport’s latest figures reveal 921,150 passengers passed through its terminals during the month, beating last October’s previous record by 4.8%.

Flybe, Europe’s largest regional airline, has put on sale its 2016 summer schedule from Birmingham Airport featuring 26 routes, two of which are new to Rotterdam and Knock.

Ryanair have announced further expansion to their schedule of Summer 2016 flights from Birmingham Airport adding Madrid and Verona to their list of destinations.

Low-cost airline Norwegian continues its rapid expansion at Birmingham this week with the launch of two new routes – making it the fastest growing carrier at the airport in 2015.

Flights between Birmingham and Copenhagen with Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) will increase in frequency from March 2016.

Birmingham Airport and Flybe are pleased to announce a new, multi-frequency, year round service to Rotterdam The Hague launching from 5th September 2016.

Czech Airlines has become the eleventh new airline this year to announce that it will launch flights from Birmingham Airport.