{"id":342510,"date":"2025-08-14T00:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T00:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/342510\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T00:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T00:33:09","slug":"birmingham-airport-reports-busiest-july-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/342510\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham Airport reports busiest July ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tX<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/full-logo-white.png\" alt=\"The Business Desk\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRegister for free to receive latest news stories direct to your inbox<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/register\/\" class=\"btn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Register<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\">Birmingham Airport has reported its busiest July ever with 1.45m passengers travelling through the transport hub.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\">The figure is 8% higher than July 2024 and is the airport\u2019s fifth consecutive record-breaking month this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\">Passenger numbers were boosted by the start of school summer holidays and increased frequencies to popular routes including Jerez, Venice and Florence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\">Al Titterington, terminal operations director at Birmingham Airport, said: \u201cJuly has been another record month with more passengers choosing Birmingham Airport than ever before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\">The airport is <a class=\"underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/westmidlands\/news\/2097373-birmingham-airport-takes-off-with-76m-upgrades\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">investing \u00a376m in upgrades this year<\/a> to enhance terminal facilities and operational efficiency and recently <a class=\"underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/westmidlands\/news\/2098146-birmingham-airport-secures-230m-financing-package-for-capital-investment-programme\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">secured \u00a3230m in financing<\/a> to support its growth plans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\">Recent improvements include modern boarding gate lounges unveiled last month to support passenger flow and on-time departures. Future developments will include expanded baggage carousels, new airside concessions and refurbished terminal spaces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\">Birmingham Airport remains on track to experience its busiest year ever with nearly 14m passengers forecast to travel through the hub in 2025\/26.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\">The airport <a class=\"underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/westmidlands\/news\/2098146-birmingham-airport-secures-230m-financing-package-for-capital-investment-programme\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">handled around 13m passengers in 2024<\/a> and is targeting 18m passengers annually by 2033.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\">In July, 90% of passengers are flying within Europe with the most popular destinations including Palma de Mallorca, Alicante, Dalaman, and Faro, alongside Dublin, Dubai and Amsterdam.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRegister now to receive our free daily business news emails&#8230;\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/register\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"X Register for free to receive latest news stories direct to your inbox Register Birmingham Airport has reported&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-342510","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\/115024311440610090","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342510","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=342510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}