Birmingham Airport

Birmingham Airport
IATA: BHX ICAO: EGBB
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Seven Metropolitan Boroughs of West Midlands (49%) Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan (48.25%) 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 / 52.45389°N 1.74806°W / 52.45389; -1.74806Coordinates: 52°27′14″N 001°44′53″W / 52.45389°N 1.74806°W / 52.45389; -1.74806
Website	birminghamairport.co.uk
Map
EGBB Location in the West Midlands
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 15/33 3,052 10,013 Asphalt
Statistics (2015)
Passengers 10,187,122 Passenger change 14-15 5.0% Aircraft Movements (2015) 98,015 Movements change 14-15 0.7%
Sources: UK AIP at NATS Statistics from the UK Civil Aviation Authority

Passengers	10,187,122
Passenger change 14-15	5.0%
Aircraft Movements (2015)	98,015
Movements change 14-15	0.7%

Birmingham Airport (IATA: BHX, ICAO: EGBB), formerly Birmingham International Airport and before that, Elmdon Airport is an international airport located 5.5 nautical miles (10.2 km; 6.3 mi) east southeast of Birmingham city centre, at Bickenhill in Solihull, England. It has a CAA Public Use Aerodrome Licence (Number P451) that allows flights for the public transport of passengers or for flying instruction.

Passenger throughput in 2015 was over 10.1 million, making Birmingham the seventh busiest UK airport. The airport offers both domestic flights within the UK, and international flights to destinations in Europe, the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent, North America and the Caribbean. Birmingham Airport is an operating base for Flybe, Monarch, Ryanair, Thomas Cook Airlines, and Thomson Airways. From February 2017 the airport will be become a base for BMI Regional and from March 2017 Jet2.com.

Birmingham Airport is 5.5 NM (10.2 km; 6.3 mi) east-south-east of Birmingham city centre, in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull. It is bordered by the National Exhibition Centre to the east, Marston Green to the north, Sheldon to the west, the village of Bickenhill to the south, and the village of Elmdonto the south west.