Birmingham Airport - UK

Birmingham Airport is the UK’s third largest airport outside London, the third largest for charter traffic, and the seventh largest overall. In 2010, 9 million passengers used the airport. Birmingham currently serves 114 direct scheduled and charter routes and offers an additional 279 possible connections worldwide. This gives passengers a choice of almost 400 direct or one-stop flights. More than 40 airlines currently operate out of Birmingham Airport.

Birmingham Airport has two major development projects in the pipeline to provide greater international connectivity: the UK High Speed rail project which will allow access from an on-site railway station to central London within 34 minutes, and planning permission for a 400m runway extension to be completed by 2014, allowing the airport to offer direct flights to the US West Coast, China, Japan, South America and South Africa.

Number of Terminals:

1

Urban population:

1 million

Total Catchment Population:

8 million within 1 hour

Number of Runways:

1

Length of main runway (m):

2600

Operational Opening Hours:

24

Ownership:

Number of Direct Destinations:

111

List of Top 5 airlines:

Flybe, Ryanair, Thomson, Emirates, Lufthansa

Passenger Numbers (mppa):

9

Cargo Tonnes (p.a.):

Number of Serving Airlines:

40

Aircraft Parking Stands: