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Birmingham Airport and Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to formalise a working relationship and commit to developing links between the two cities.

Birmingham Airport continues to experience significant growth in 2015, as almost 650,000 passengers passed through the terminal in February, an 8.4% increase on the same month last year.

Belgian regional carrier VLM Airlines is to begin operating services on the Waterford-Birmingham route, as from April 27.

The UK Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Rt Hon Sajid Javid MP, has welcomed news that Birmingham Airport will host a programme of charter flights from Beijing this summer, carrying almost four thousand Chinese tourists into the UK on package tours and contributing £19 million to the regional economy.

2014 was another record breaking year for Lufthansa in the Midlands with over 482,000 passengers travelling in and out of Birmingham – a like for like increase of almost seven per cent on 2013.

Birmingham Airport has recorded the busiest January in its history, as over 600,000 passengers passed through the terminal last month, an 11.1% increase compared to the same period last year.

Birmingham Airport is next in line to board The Big Hoot flight, having committed to sponsoring an owl for the massive art project set to land in Birmingham this summer.

Icelandair's first scheduled service between Birmingham and Reykjavik has lift off, as passengers were treated to an experience on board the new “Aurora plane”.

Marshall Aviation Services, the business aviation-focused arm of the Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group, has announced it is widening its expertise into the FBO arena.   It has secured the executive aviation handling facility (FBO) at Birmingham Airport and will formally open for business under the Marshall Aviation Services name within the next few months.

Whilst the Airports Commission is mandated with taking a “UK-wide perspective”, new analysis has questioned whether it has properly investigated the potential economic effect on the country’s regions of the shortlisted runway options. 

Birmingham Airport has reported its busiest year ever in 2014, which ended with another record month in December.

Cello Aviation is adding a Boeing 737 to its fleet in a major development for the Birmingham based carrier.

Birmingham customers will be able to fly direct to Deauville for the first time this summer following Flybe's announcement to add this third new French route to its 2015 Summer schedule.

Turkish Airlines has announced that it will increase services between Birmingham and Istanbul from ten flights a week to twelve from the 29th March 2015, providing even more domestic and international connections to passengers from the Midlands. 

Emirates, a global connector of people, places and economies, has announced a third daily service from Birmingham Airport to Dubai, becoming the first airline to offer a direct First Class service to the region. 

Birmingham Airport and Air India have celebrated the start of daily flights between Birmingham, Delhi and Amritsar after the carrier took delivery of its 18th Boeing 787 ‘Dreamliner’.

Birmingham Airport has recorded the busiest November in its history, as almost 650,000 passengers passed through the terminal last month, a 10% increase compared to the same period last year.