Birmingham Airport is employing additional staff in an attempt to improve the passenger journey through security. There have been various reports in recent days of large queues at the airport’s security, as a result of confusion over rules on liquids in hand luggage. Earlier this month the Department for Transport temporarily reintroduced restrictions limiting air…
Birmingham Airport has provided an update on the restrictions for liquids in hand luggage, following the introduction of new scanning equipment. Customers may now take an unlimited number of 100ml bottles in their hand luggage, which can be placed in luggage loose and do not need to be removed for security screening. This is a…
Lufthansa has confirmed the launch details for its new Lufthansa City subsidiary, with the first flight taking place between Munich and Birmingham on 26 June. Tickets are now on sale for initial routes from Munich to Berlin, Hamburg, Bremen, Dusseldorf, Cologne, Hanover, Birmingham, Manchester and Bordeaux. Business Traveller first reported on the new subsidiary –…
Jet2 has confirmed plans to launch flights between Manchester and Porto from early July, a year earlier than originally intended. In November the low-cost carrier announced Porto as a new destination for summer 2025, with routes from both Birmingham and Manchester. But Jet2 said that “on the back of huge demand for city breaks and…
Work continues on Birmingham airport’s (BHX) new £50 million security hall, with new lifts now in place and screening equipment expected to be delivered in January. The airport is phasing in the use of four 50-person Sheridan lifts, which will become the main means of moving between the ground floor check-in and first floor departures…
Turkish Airlines has announced plans to operate 18 weekly flights between Birmingham and Istanbul next summer. This winter the carrier is maintaining a twice-daily service between the two cities – rather than dropping down to ten flights per week as it has done previously – and the airline said that “forecasts of even greater demand…
Birmingham airport (BHX) has become the latest UK airport to exceed pre-pandemic passenger traffic levels. A total of 1,106,000 passengers travelled through the airport in October, compared to 1,101,000 during the same period in 2019. BHX says it now expects its 2023/24 traffic to “draw level or even exceed” that of 2019/20, when it served…
Pegasus Airlines has announced a new service between Birmingham and Istanbul’s Sabiha Gokcen International airport for this winter. The Turkish low-cost carrier will offer three flights per week (Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday) on the route from 21 December, with one-way fares starting from £39.99. The new service will provide competition for Turkish Airlines, which operates…
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