Birmingham Airport has announced the appointment of Paul Kehoe as its new Chief Executive Officer. Mr Kehoe, who is currently CEO at Bristol Airport, has previously been Managing Director at London Luton Airport and Belfast International Airport. John Hudson, Chairman of Birmingham International Airport commented: We are delighted to have attracted Paul to Birmingham Airport following a [...]

SWISS has announced that all departures at Birmingham International Airport will transfer from Terminal 2 to Terminal 1 from 4 June 2008.
The move is to enable co-location with Lufthansa and SAS.
SWISS check-in desks will be situated next to Lufthansa.
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Birmingham Airport now has the facilities in place to accept assistance dogs on flights.
The process of checking in with an assistance dog will be managed by One Complete Solution (OCS) and will see vaccination histories checked.
Passengers with assistance dogs should contact their airline or tour operator before travelling.
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US Airways is to launch a new service to Philadelphia from Birmingham Airport next summer.
The new Birmingham flights will commence on 13 May and run until the end of September.
Flights will operate daily, arriving into Birmingham at 06:25. The service will then depart at 08:45, arriving in Philadelphia at 11:50.
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Ryanair launched its 25th base at Birmingham International Airport this week and announced the introduction of nine new routes to start in October 2008.
The Birmingham flights will operate to: Alicante, Derry, Fuerteventura, Katowice, Kaunas, Krakow, Palma, Malaga and Murcia.
The airline predicts that, by 2012, it will have ten aircraft based at Birmingham airport which will [...]

Monday, 15 December is decision day for Birmingham airport when Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council is expected to decide whether the airport can go ahead with plans to extend its runway by 400 metres. The councils planning officers have already recommended approval. Speaking about the forthcoming decision, Paul Kehoe, CEO of Birmingham International Airport, said, It is [...]

Birmingham airport is celebrating after recording its highest ever passenger numbers for the month of July. The airport handled 1,036,135 passengers during July an increase of 7.5% on July 2007, and the first time this year that the airport handled more than a million passenger in a month. The record-breaking month also saw the airport [...]

Birmingham Airport is to benefit from the opening of a new route to Istanbul this winter, TTG reports. The five-times weekly service will be operated by Turkish Airlines as of December 15. It will be the first direct connection to...

Figures just released show that Birmingham airport handled 936,868 passengers in June an increase of 2.8% compared with June 2007. Contributing to the numbers were increases of 8.5% on non EU routes, 9.8% on EU routes and a rise of 13.1% to the Irish Republic. Joe Kelly, Acting Managing Director of Birmingham International Airport, [...]

Birmingham Airport has unveiled a new cycle and footpath scheme to make access to the airport safer for pedestrians and cyclists.
A proper footpath now exists for people walking to and from the railway station. There is also new pedestrian and cycle access from Bickenhill Lane and a new footpath/cycle path along Herald Road to improve [...]