easyJet pilot activated by mistake hijacking alarm ahead of arrival at Palma de Mallorca
Alarm at Palma airport after the hijack button on a plane was mistakenly activated. National Police and the Civil Guard were mobilised at Son...
Emirates adds Birmingham, Cebu and Houston, taking its network to 74 cities
Emirates has announced it will resume passenger services to Birmingham (1 September), Cebu (20 August), and Houston (23 August). This will bring the airline's...
Brussels Airlines and Brussels Airport linked to only three UK airports in summer 2024
Brussels Airlines will not operate flights between Brussels Airport and Birmingham during the summer, redirecting resources to more profitable leisure routes. The service is...
bmi regional announces new Birmingham hub with three new routes: Graz, Gothenburg and Nuremberg flights to launch this spring
bmi regional is creating a new hub at Birmingham airport, launching three exciting new European routes from the UK’s second city. The new routes...
Jet2 plane makes emergency landing at Faro Airport
Jet2 Airbus 321neo, registered G-SUNB and operating flight LS1266 from Tenerife South to Birmingham, made an emergency landing at Faro Airport on 22 February...
Eurowings enters the British leisure market with flights from Birmingham and Manchester to Mallorca
Lufthansa Group airline connects holiday island Mallorca with Birmingham and Manchester for the first time
Eurowings increases its international business at its base...
Budapest Airport boosts Birmingham bond
Last Friday saw Budapest Airport expand its bond with Birmingham as Jet2.com launched a twice-weekly service to the UK Midlands airport. Investing in the...
Thousands of passengers evacuated at Birmingham Airport after fire alarm
A fire alarm that sounded inside Birmingham Airport's main terminal around 14:00 (UTC +1) prompted all passengers to evacuate the building, causing a massive...
Flybe commences flights from Glasgow Airport
Flybe Ltd’s inaugural flight from Glasgow took off today (14th April) for Belfast City Airport.Today marks the beginning of up to four daily flights...
Flybe announces new year-round route to Hamburg from Birmingham
Leading regional airline will operate only direct service to Germany’s ‘second city’ from Birmingham with choice of up to four flights a weekFlybe has...
bmi regional returns to Birmingham Airport with launch of route to Graz
Bmi regional proudly returned to Birmingham today with the launch of its new flight from Birmingham to Graz, Austria. It is the only direct...
VLM Airlines flies to Birmingham from 26 March and doubles the number of flights on the Antwerp-Munich route
On Monday, March 26, 2018, VLM Airlines will add Birmingham to its network. From Monday to Friday, the airline will fly daily from Antwerp...
Budapest Airport welcomes new route (to Birmingham) and more seats on existing routes from Jet2.com
Already serving Budapest Airport from East Midlands, Edinburgh, Leeds Bradford and Manchester, the Hungarian capital gateway announces that Jet2.com will add a new service...
Vueling to launch Birmingham Barcelona
Vueling, Spain's leading low cost carrier, will launch flights from Birmingham Airport to Barcelona on 1st June 2015. The airline will start with three...
Flybe purple reigns at Birmingham airport in readiness for Winter launch
Leading regional airline lights up Birmingham airport’s ATC control tower with purple lighting
Flybe is largest scheduled airline by daily air traffic movements...
easyJet to open base at Birmingham Airport in March 2024
‘HUGE VOTE OF CONFIDENCE IN WEST MIDLANDS’ BY EASYJETThe UK’s biggest airline today announced it will open a base for three of its...
Flybe announces new Birmingham headquarters and first crew base
One of Britain’s newest commercial airlines in several decades, Flybe Ltd, has today announced that Birmingham Airport will be its new company headquarters and...
Flybe announces three more summer routes from Birmingham
Leading regional airline boosts 2016 Summer programme with three brand new routes to Nantes, Rennes–Saint-Jacques and Limoges
Flybe has announced a further expansion of its...
Jet2 back at Vienna Airport with flights from Manchester and Birmingham
Jet2.com, the UK's third-largest airline, has resumed operations at Vienna Airport. Starting from September 29, 2023, Jet2.com will operate two weekly flights connecting Vienna...