Thursday 23 June 2016 - Air Berlin Airbus A320-214 D-ABNY operates return charter to Stuttgart

Air Berlin "Sharklet" Airbus A320-214 D-ABNY positioned in from Berlin Tegel....

.... to operate the return charter to Stuttgart via Dusseldorf

.... its first visit to BHX

Air France Airbus A320-214 F-GKXS operated their delayed morning service to Paris CDG....

.... the aircraft has recently been repainted into "Skyteam" colours

AlbaStar Boeing 737-4K5 EC-LNC operated their IT/inclusive tour flight to Palma

Norwegian Boeing 737-8JP EI-FHS operated their flight to Madrid

Emirates Airbus A380-861 A6-EOY operated their flight from Dubai while....

Qatar Airways Boeing 787-8 A7-BCU operated their flight from Doha - its first visit to BHX

Challenger 650 HB-JSF was an evening arrival when it positioned over from Coventry

DC Aviation Citation XLS+ D-CNNN was a day stopping visitor from Stuttgart on the Elmdon apron

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Solihull dancers enter Dance World Cup with help from Birmingham Airport Trust Fund‏

Andy Holding, Birmingham Airport’s Corporate Responsibility Manager, with dancers from Spotlight Stage School

Birmingham Airport has awarded Spotlight Stage School, based in North Solihull, with a grant to
support them in representing England at the 2016 Dance World Cup in Jersey later this month

Spotlight is an independent part-time stage school where aspiring performers can train in all
aspects of theatre arts. Starting with just 60 pupils the school now provides tuition to over
400 youngsters on a weekly basis

Vicky Richards, Principal and Founder of Spotlight, said: "Pupils attend classes for fun and fitness,
to make friends, to increase self-confidence or with a view to becoming a professional performer
or teacher of theatre arts. There is no audition to become a member as there are different classes
to cater for all ability ranges"

"We are totally overwhelmed to receive this grant and extremely grateful to Birmingham Airport’s
Trustees. The money will help us with the cost of the outfits that will be required for various
competitions, particularly the Dance World Cup this month"

Andy Holding, Corporate Responsibility Manager at Birmingham Airport, said: "The Trustees decided
to award Spotlight with this funding as Vicky and the team do an incredible job to teach young people
to dance to a very high standard. The dedication and commitment shown by both teachers and pupils
is heart-warming and the opportunities these children receive are life changing. This is very much in
line with our Corporate Responsibility Strategy of developing local communities and promoting health
and wellbeing in the area"

"We wish them a huge amount of luck in the Dance World Cup and we look forward to hearing about
how many medals they bring home this year"

The funding awarded, forms part of the Birmingham Airport Community Trust Fund which awards
grants of up to £3,000 to community groups in areas most affected by the Airport’s operations. Each
year the airport contributes £75,000 to the Community Trust Fund. Additionally any charges made
to airlines which breach night noise regulations, are added to the fund

The next available round of Trust Fund awards will be made in October 2016. The closing date
for receiptof completed applications is Friday 26 August 2016. More information is available 
on the Birmingham Airport www site here

Monday 27 June 2016

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AlbaStar launch new weekly flights for the summer from Birmingham Airport to Palma de Mallorca‏

AlbaStar, the Spanish charter airline, has launched two series of weekly flights from Birmingham
Airport to Palma de Mallorca for the summer season for two leading UK Tour Operators

Flights on Wednesday and Sunday are operated on behalf of online travel agency "On The Beach"
- http://www.onthebeach.co.uk - with flights on Thursday operating on behalf of Thomson Holidays

William Pearson, Birmingham Airport’s Aviation Director, said: "We are very pleased to be welcoming
AlbaStar – our twelfth new airline in the space of just over a year, to Birmingham Airport"

"Palma de Mallorca is a very well-known and extremely popular holiday destination from Birmingham
Airport. When this is combined with the great on board service and very reasonable seat prices AlbaStar
offer, we are sure this will be a popular route and we look forward to seeing it flourish at Birmingham"

AlbaStar use Boeing 737-400s on all their flights from Birmingham

Michael Harrington, Managing Director of AlbaStar, said: "We are very pleased to start this new initiative

at Birmingham Airport which we now hope becomes the central platform for our UK AlbaStar operations. 

Birmingham is ideally geographically situated and the airport has an excellent rail link

AlbaStar schedule from 21 May to 29 October 2016

0920/1020 AP6467/6468 734 from/to Palma
- operates on Thursday to 29.9.16
1900/2000 AP423/424 734 from/to Palma
- operates on Wednesday and Saturday

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Wednesday 15 June 2016

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