Birmingham Airport

Regarding Birmingham Airport, it is an international airport, which codes are IATA: BHX, ICAO: EGBB, it was previously known as Birmingham International Airport. The airport is placed seven nautical miles, which is 13 km, 8.1 mi, east-southeast of the city center, it is slightly north in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, Bickenhill, England. It was opened on 8 July 1939 as an Elmdon Airport. The airport was used by the Air Ministry when the second world war occurred. Royal Air Force, RAF, as well as Royal Navy as RAF Elmdon, worked there. The airport is used for wartime production purposes and flight training. However, as the world war ended, in July 1946, civilian operations started. The airport nowadays owns a CAA Public Use Aerodrome Licence, Number P451, which allows them to have flights for the public transport. In 2017 the airport handled over 12.9 million passengers, and due to this, Birmingham airport is the seventh busiest airport in the United Kingdom. The airport has international flights to many destinations in Europe, the Indian Subcontinent, North America, the Middle East as well as the Caribbean. The airport is based on Jet2.com, TUI Airways, as well as Ryanair. Worth noting, till 4 March 2020, the airport had an extensive domestic route network which was operated by FlyBe. FlyBe is a significant base from the airport to Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man, Channel Islands, as well as Scotland.

Birmingham Airport

Regarding Birmingham Airport, it is an international airport, which codes are IATA: BHX, ICAO: EGBB, it was previously known as Birmingham International Airport. The airport is placed seven nautical miles, which is 13 km, 8.1 mi, east-southeast of the city center, it is slightly north in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, Bickenhill, England. It was opened on 8 July 1939 as an Elmdon Airport. The airport was used by the Air Ministry when the second world war occurred. Royal Air Force, RAF, as well as Royal Navy as RAF Elmdon, worked there. The airport is used for wartime production purposes and flight training. However, as the world war ended, in July 1946, civilian operations started. The airport nowadays owns a CAA Public Use Aerodrome Licence, Number P451, which allows them to have flights for the public transport. In 2017 the airport handled over 12.9 million passengers, and due to this, Birmingham airport is the seventh busiest airport in the United Kingdom. The airport has international flights to many destinations in Europe, the Indian Subcontinent, North America, the Middle East as well as the Caribbean. The airport is based on Jet2.com, TUI Airways, as well as Ryanair. Worth noting, till 4 March 2020, the airport had an extensive domestic route network which was operated by FlyBe. FlyBe is a significant base from the airport to Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man, Channel Islands, as well as Scotland.

The Capacity and Business Activity

As the annual passenger traffic was increasing every year, the authorities analyzed that the merge of terminal 1 and 2 was necessary, and in September 2010, they announced that. In 2011 they did like this, and the airport had to drop title international from the name and became Birmingham Airport. However, there were problems, because research showed that 8 million people were living a very short distance from the airport, but they were not using this airport, less than 40% was the customer of the airport. The main reason why the rebranding of the airport started was. From November 2010, the new name of the airport appeared, as well as a new logo, slogan "Hello World," the authorities wanted it to be seen by everyone, and this would position the airport as a global travel hub. In 2011, new two floors were added as well. The same year construction of a new control tower started, it was completed in March 2012, and it changed the airport's original tower. The original tower had been used since 1939.

History and Present-day Operations

The airport started working in 1939. However, the idea of establishing the airport in the city was created beforehand. In 1928, the Birmingham City Council decided that the town needed a new municipal airport, and they formed a committee that would start working to establish such a facility. Potential sites were tested from 1931, including Elmdon, Aldridge, Shirley, and at first, Elmdon was chosen as an essential and appropriate location for the airport. By 1933, the project was started, and the following year the construction of the airport began. The decisions were taken by the members who had visited many successful airports in Europe, such as Berlin, Lyon, Paris, London, Brussels, and Amsterdam as well. In 1935 the airport committee invited Norman and Dawbarn, which were advisers from British architectural and engineering practice, and made them expert advisers in the project. In 1936, a private bill was passed through Birmingham Parliament, and they permitted them to start establishing.