{"id":341310,"date":"2025-08-13T14:01:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T14:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/341310\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T14:01:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T14:01:21","slug":"record-summer-continues-at-birmingham-airport-with-busiest-july-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/341310\/","title":{"rendered":"Record summer continues at Birmingham Airport with busiest July ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Birmingham Airport (BHX) has reported its busiest July ever amidst a record-breaking summer for passenger volume.<\/p>\n<p>1,455,192 passengers travelled through the regional transport hub in July 2025 \u2013 an 8.2% increase compared to the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>The figure was bolstered by the start of the school summer holidays, as well as increased frequencies to popular routes including Jerez, Venice and Florence.<\/p>\n<p>Birmingham Airport remains on track to experience its busiest year ever with nearly 14 million passengers forecast to travel through the transport hub in 2025\/26.<\/p>\n<p>The most popular destinations for July included sunshine spots such as Palma de Mallorca, Alicante, Dalaman, and Faro. Other busy routes included Dublin, Dubai and Amsterdam.<\/p>\n<p>With the airport experiencing its busiest year ever, the transport hub is continuing to deliver its largest annual, Capital Investment Plan ever.<\/p>\n<p>Totalling over \u00a376 million, the significant investment aims to enhance terminal facilities, operational efficiency and the customer experience.<\/p>\n<p>As part of these improvement works, last month, the airport unveiled modern new-look boarding gate lounges to support with passenger flow and on-time departures.<\/p>\n<p>Future developments at BHX will include expanded baggage carousels, new airside concessions and refurbished terminal spaces.<\/p>\n<p>Al Titterington, Terminal operations director of Birmingham Airport said: \u201cJuly has been another record month with more passengers choosing Birmingham Airport than ever before.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is our fifth consecutive record-breaking month this year, with passengers taking advantage of our array of routes offered by our partner airlines, offering more choice and convenience for travel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring July alone we saw over 1.4m pass through our airport, benefiting from connectivity to our extensive route network from Birmingham Airport.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Birmingham Airport (BHX) has reported its busiest July ever amidst a record-breaking summer for passenger volume. 1,455,192 passengers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-341310","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115021826264486523","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}