Birmingham Flights

A medium-sized airport, I' say. Smaller than Stansted or Manchester, definitely larger than Coventry or Cardiff. Its rather small size makes it easy to navigate around the airport.

There are two terminals but they are under the same roof and it only takes a couple of minutes to walk from the one to the other.

If you are leaving from Terminal 2 (mainly BA flights I think), bear in mind that this is the smaller of the two terminals, and there are only a handful of shops once you've passed security.

There is a monorail linking the railway station/NEC with the airport. Trains to Birmingham are quite frequent.

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Birmingham airport is not huge, although it does have two terminals. As these are actually next door to each other, you won't have to walk far!

There are good connections to lots of places in Europe (including with budget carriers) and elsewhere.

Directions and signage are good, and there are enough places to eat/sit/drink/shop.

There are wudu facilities (and a prayer room) in Terminal 2.

If you are travelling at very busy times (e.g. the UK school holidays) you may find check-in and security have longish queues, as Birmingham is a popular departure point for many UK package holiday operators.

Transport links to Birmingham, and for onward travel, are good and there is plenty of parking (best booked online in advance for cheapest prices). The airport website has details.

From our house, we took a train to Birmingham International. We arrived at the airport about three hours before our plane was scheduled to leave. There were two trains that went direct to Birmingham International and given the unreliability of the English train system these days, we took the first available. So, while we were waiting, we hung out in the departure section of the Birmingham airport and drank a cup of coffee. We flew Ryan Air (like Southwest in the US - no frills) and it actually left on time.

Just over 9 million passengers used Birmingham Airport in 2003.
Flights to France include Paris, and Toulouse.
Regular German services to Berlin, Frankfurt, Hanover and Munich.
Flights to Italy include Milan, Turin and Vienna.
Other European flights go to Amsterdam, Barcelona, Basel, Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid and Prague
Flights to Tehran
There are charter flights to Orlando and Rayleigh/Durham.
Services started in 2000 to Dubai, Islamabad and Karachi.
See also the VT page on scheduled services.
In the latest government review of airport needs, Birmingham Airport's application for a 2nd runway has been indicated as being favoured by the government. That does not mean that the Airport has had it's planning application approved.
The Airport is next door to Birmingham International Railway Station with a free SkyTrain rapid transport people mover between the terminal buildings and the station. Trains to the City and Coventry taking 10 minutes and Wolverhampton 30 minutes. There is a train to Birmingham every 5 to 7 minutes on weekdays.
Virgin Trains are campaigning to have the station renamed Birmingham Airport Railway Station.
There are also quite a lot of local bus services direct from both the airport and the railway station.

April 2003 Uzbekistan Airways have extended their Tashkent service to JFK every Tuesday and Sunday.
July 2003 My TravelLite (low cost airline) have anounced that from the winter timetable they will have new flights to Pisa.
From 3rd Nov 2003 BMI will have 3 flights per day Mon to Fri and 1 on Sun to Gothenburg.
Pakistan International have started twice-weekly flights to Chicago.
May 2004 British Airways has flights to Lyon, Venice and Nice
May 2004 FlyBe (low cost airline) have flights to Belfast, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Jersey, New York (Newark), Perpiqnan, Salzburg, Shannon, and Toulouse.
From 10th May 2004 CSA Czech Airways have increased their flights to Prague to one every day and 2 flights on Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays.
From 6 June 2004 Eastern Airlines are increasing their flights to Inverness. They also fly to Newcastle and the Isle of Man
From 15 June 2004 Continental Airlines are increasing their daily flight to 2 flights per day to New York/Newark Liberty.
From July 2004 there will a twice weekly flight to Tehran.

Duo has many straight connections to B'ham, couple of them being Helsinki, Berlin, Stockholm and Vienna. At least from Helsinki the price was less than 50% compared to the other alternatives. Everything worked out really well, the service was really good, the food in the plane amongst the best ones ever (at least the other direction). In my flights, there were only 10 passengers so let's hope that the company don't go bankcrupt. Good work though!

Get to Birmingham with ease. Fly into BHX (Birmingham International Airport) and then catch the train from the airports own station directly into the heart of the city. The airport is also located next to the M42 motorway, should you wish to drive when you get here.

The best way to get from the airport to the city centre is by train. It will cost about £3 (5euro) and take 15mins. Arrival will be at New Street Station