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Birmingham Airport (IATA: BHX, ICAO: EGBB), formerly Birmingham International Airport is an airport located 5.5 NM (10.2 km; 6.3 mi) east southeast of Birmingham city centre, at Bickenhill in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull within the West Midlands, England. The airport is a base for BMI, Bmibaby, Flybe, Monarch, Ryanair, Thomas Cook Airlines and Thomson Airways.

BHX offers both domestic flights within the UK, and international flights to destinations in Europe, the Indian subcontinent, the Middle East, North America and the Caribbean.

Birmingham has a CAA Public Use Aerodrome Licence (Number P451) that allows flights for the public transport of passengers or for flying instruction.

After handling a record 9.6 million passengers in 2008, passenger numbers declined to 8,572,398 in 2010, making Birmingham the seventh busiest UK airport. Since 2006, both Luton Airport and Edinburgh Airport have overtaken Birmingham Airport in terms of passenger numbers.

Tags: Bickenhill, Birmingham Airport West Midlands, Bmibaby, Edinburgh Airport, English Midlands, Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, Thomas Cook Airlines, Thomson Airways

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