Birmingham Airport facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Birmingham Airport
IATA: BHX – ICAO: EGBB
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner		Seven Metropolitan Boroughs of West Midlands (49%), the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan (48.25%) and employees (2.75%)
Operator		Birmingham Airport Ltd
Serves		Birmingham, United Kingdom
Location		Bickenhill, Solihull, United Kingdom
Hub for		Flybe
Elevation AMSL		341 ft / 104 m
Coordinates		52°27′14″N 001°44′53″W
Website		birminghamairport.co.uk
Map
Location in the West Midlands
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	m	ft
15/33	3,052	10,013	Asphalt
Statistics (2018)
Passengers			12,445,295
Passenger change 17-18			4.2%
Aircraft Movements			8.1%
Sources: UK AIP at NATS Statistics from the UK Civil Aviation Authority

Birmingham Airport is an airport near the City of Birmingham, England.

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. The airport is a base for Ryanair, and also charter airlines Bmibaby, Flybe, Monarch, Thomas Cook Airlines 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.

Images for kids

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  The airport site, as it was around 1921.

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  The Maglev rapid transport system, which operated from 1984 to 1995, was the first commercial maglev system in the world

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  Main check-in hall in Terminal 1

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  Birmingham International railway station

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  The proposed 'Birmingham Interchange'