Birmingham Airport now has the facilities in place to accept assistance dogs on flights.

The process of checking in with an assistance dog will be managed by One Complete Solution (OCS) and will see vaccination histories checked.

Passengers with assistance dogs should contact their airline or tour operator before travelling.

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US Airways is to launch a new service to Philadelphia from Birmingham Airport next summer.

The new Birmingham flights will commence on 13 May and run until the end of September.

Flights will operate daily, arriving into Birmingham at 06:25. The service will then depart at 08:45, arriving in Philadelphia at 11:50.

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The Accor Hotel group has just opened two new hotels at Birmingham Airport.

The Ibis and Etap hotels are located opposite Terminals 1 and 2 and are linked to Birmingham International railway station and the NEC by a free Air Rail Link service operating every 90 seconds.

The Ibis hotel offers 162 rooms and has a 24-hour reception and an ‘Around the Clock’ snack menu.

The Etap offers a low cost no-frills hotel with 120 rooms designed for up to three occupants and is one of six new Etap hotels opening throughout the UK in September and October.

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Ryanair has announced the cancellation of 25 return flights to and from Birmingham Airport due to strike action at Boeing.

The routes affected were due to operate between 24 & 28 October and passengers due to fly will receive a full refund.

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In response to an increase in demand, Monarch is adding an extra 12,000 seats to its scheduled services over the Christmas and New Year period.

The additional flights will operate from four of Monarch’s UK airport bases – Birmingham airport, Gatwick, London Luton and Manchester airport - to Spain, the Canaries, Portugal and Cyprus.

Bilga Air has axed its plans to launch flights to India from Birmingham Airport.

The airline had recently been formed with a view to starting flights to Amritsar, India, on 9 October.

Passengers with advance bookings should contact the operator direct for a full refund.

New airline, Bilga Air, is to launch flights between Birmingham Airport and Amritsar in Northern India.

The new Birmingham flights will be operated by UK Charter Airline, Monarch, and will start on 9 October.

Flights can be booked through travel agents or direct on 0121 525 9100 – return flights start from £575.

The slowdown in the aviation industry doesn’t seem to be affecting Birmingham airport.

Figures just released show that the airport handled 1,079,970 passengers during August – its busiest ever month since opening in 1939 - an increase of 7.4% on August 2007 and 30,000 more than August 2005.

Contributing to the growth was a massive 953% increase in traffic to Bratislava, a 90% increase to Inverness, while passenger numbers were up 75.9% to Marseille and 59% to Larnaca.

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Ryanair has unveiled two new ski routes from Birmingham airport.

The weekly Birmingham flights to Cuneo and Grenoble will start on 20 December and operate throughout Ryanair’s winter season which has been extended to include Easter 2009.

Birmingham airport is celebrating after recording its highest ever passenger numbers for the month of July.

The airport handled 1,036,135 passengers during July – an increase of 7.5% on July 2007, and the first time this year that the airport handled more than a million passenger in a month. The record-breaking month also saw the airport achieve 9,530,628 passengers in a rolling 12 month period – up 4.3% on the previous 12 months.

July’s growth was achieved on Non EU routes of 7.3% and EU of 20.6% with the Irish Republic seeing an increase of 12.9%.

New Birmingham flights that were launched in July were: Biarritz, Bratislava, Bydgoszcz, Gdansk, Olbia, Perpignan, Stockholm and Trapani.

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