Birmingham Airport
airport in Bickenhill, West Midlands, England / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Birmingham Airport [5] is an airport near the City of Birmingham, England.
Birmingham Airport | |||||||||||
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
Owner | Seven Metropolitan Boroughs of West Midlands (49%), the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan (48.25%) and employees (2.75%)[1] | ||||||||||
Operator | Birmingham Airport Ltd | ||||||||||
Serves | Birmingham, United Kingdom | ||||||||||
Location | Bickenhill, Solihull, United Kingdom | ||||||||||
Hub for | Flybe[2] | ||||||||||
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Elevation AMSL | 341 ft / 104 m | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 52°27′14″N 001°44′53″W | ||||||||||
Website | birminghamairport.co.uk | ||||||||||
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It is 5.5 nautical miles (6.1 miles or 10.2 kilometers) east southeast of Birmingham city centre. Its local authority is the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull in the West Midlands.
The airport offers both domestic flights within the UK, and international flights to destinations in Europe, the Middle East, Pakistan, North America and the Caribbean. After handling 9.6 million passengers in 2008, the number of passengers dropped to 8,572,398 in 2010, making Birmingham the seventh busiest UK airport.[4] The airport is a base for Ryanair, and also charter airlines Bmibaby and Thomson Airways.
Birmingham has a CAA (Civil Aviation Authority) Public Use Aerodrome Licence (Number P451) that allows flights for the public transport of passengers or for flying instruction.