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Flybe, Europe’s largest regional carrier and the largest schedules airline at Birmingham Airport, has reaffirmed its commitment to further growth with the announcement of a brand new route to Berlin Tegel as part of its 2014 – 2015 Winter Schedule. 

Birmingham Airport has welcomed the UK's first direct flight from China into a non-London airport and inaugurated the use of its recently extended runway as the service departed for its five thousand mile journey back to Beijing.

Thomson Airways has launched its first Boeing 787 Dreamliner service from Birmingham Airport, as it departed for Montego Bay, Jamaica.

• Four aircraft to be based at Birmingham Airport in 2015 to include brand new Airbus A321

All Bar One, famous for its stylish food menu and great tasting cocktails, is the latest brand to arrive at Birmingham Airport, as two new bars open their doors to passengers.

Flybe, Europe’s largest independent regional airline, has celebrated the start of its new summer ‘twilight’ flights to Reykjavik Keflavik and Ibiza that will operate through to 7th September, 2014, flights to Reykjavik reverting at the end of October to a daylight schedule for the winter.

As Birmingham Airport approaches its 75th birthday, it has revealed that more than two hundred million passengers have travelled through its doors since records began.

Birmingham Airport’s CEO has welcomed talks with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on trade and visa requirements as essential for bolstering UK-China relations. 

Birmingham Airport has recorded the busiest May in its history, as almost 900,000 passengers passed through the terminal last month, a 5.3% increase compared to the same period last year.

Monarch, the leading scheduled airline to leisure destinations, announces two new routes from Birmingham Airport - to Salzburg and Turin - as part of its winter ski programme for 2014/15. Flights will commence on the 13th December 2014 and are on sale from 10th June 2014. To book visit www.monarch.co.uk     

The first flight on Aegean's new route to Athens took off from Birmingham Airport on Tuesday 10th June. The seasonal route will operate twice a week, Tuesday and Saturday. 

An agreement between Regus and Birmingham Airport will see a new Regus Express Lounge open at the Airport later this year. The Lounge will offer instant office or meeting space for anyone arriving at or departing from the airport. Business people and mobile workers will need no longer struggle to work or meet in noisy concourses or lounges when doing their jobs on the go. 

Addressing a cross party reception of MPs, Lords and business leaders on the day of the Queen's Speech, Birmingham Airport CEO Paul Kehoe called on the Government to get behind Britain's great airports for great cities. 

Iceland’s leading airline since 1937, Icelandair, announces scheduled service from Birmingham (BHX) to Reykjavik (KEF). Birmingham will become Icelandair’s 5th gateway in the UK and 39th overall. The new flights will operate twice weekly, Thursdays and Mondays, from 5th of February 2015. 

Flybe, Europe's largest regional airline, will operate two new routes from Birmingham Airport this winter namely a daily service to Hamburg and Oslo from 26th October through to 27th March 2015.

Birmingham Airport has recorded the busiest April in its history, as more than 750,000 passengers passed through the terminal last month, a 16.7% increase compared to the same period last year. 

Ryanair, Europe’s favourite low fares airline, has launched its Birmingham 2014 winter schedule, with 2 new routes to Gdansk and Kaunas and increased flight frequencies on 3 other routes, which will deliver over 1.25m customers per annum and support 1250 on-site jobs at Birmingham Airport. 

Birmingham attracted more international visits last year than ever before according to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).