Rarely fly from there now.
Missus owns an apartment in Turkey. Used to fly regular to Bodrum with Monarch. They encountered financial difficulties recently and as a consequence that service ceased. Can'the understand why as the plane was always full when we boarded.
Speculating, but think the airport are trying to obtain more prestigious, business orientated flights. As Birmingham becomes a more globalised city, routes to stag do/holiday locations will be less of a priority.
An opportunity for Baginton perhaps!
Ooh dunno....A drunken stagger around the Midland Air Museum is an absolute must!Can't see Baginton kicking off as a stag destination! 'The old mill' & 'The oak' are nice enough but not a lot else going on, maybe paint balling at the Lunt fort or flower arranging at the nursery!
I don't know about any one else, but this airport really winds me up.
Living so close you would think it would be really convenient, but I fly a lot and can almost never use it due to the lack of decent destinations or frequent routes I tend to take. The affordability compared to the same routes from other airports is also often astronomical in comparison.
Then you find when you do actually find somewhere you want to go from BHX, the flight times are completely unreasonable (can put up with that) but the days the planes go just don't make sense. Planning a mates stag recently and the destination we wanted to go to was available on two airlines from BHX, but they flew on the exact same days of the week. Completely stupid.
Baggage claims and customs are also a joke, seems they are having issues again today too:
Updates: 'Chaos' at Birmingham Airport as returning travellers face delays
Baginton won't ever have commercial passenger flights again unless it is hugely revamped. After the council denied permission to bring the passenger terminal up to standard that side of the airport was redeveloped.Can't see Baginton kicking off as a stag destination!
I don't know about any one else, but this airport really winds me up.
Living so close you would think it would be really convenient, but I fly a lot and can almost never use it due to the lack of decent destinations or frequent routes I tend to take. The affordability compared to the same routes from other airports is also often astronomical in comparison.
Then you find when you do actually find somewhere you want to go from BHX, the flight times are completely unreasonable (can put up with that) but the days the planes go just don't make sense. Planning a mates stag recently and the destination we wanted to go to was available on two airlines from BHX, but they flew on the exact same days of the week. Completely stupid.
Baggage claims and customs are also a joke, seems they are having issues again today too:
Updates: 'Chaos' at Birmingham Airport as returning travellers face delays
I've never had a problem with Brum for either holidays, away trips or business. East Mids last year was a bit ropey. Didn't seem to be able to handle a Dreamliner. One I can't stand is Stansted. Fly from there more than any other and it's a pain in the arse.
Why is Stansted a pain in the arse? It used to be really good until they moved the security around, now it is really inefficient.
Birmingham is still the worst though, for everything.
The expansion at Manchester now makes it feel too large, too dysfunctional and impersonal, almost as if they're trying to recreate Heathrow. We much prefer flying from Liverpool if at all possible as the overall experience is much better and it's a similar distance for us.Manchester is the worst, it's been extended so many times it feels so disjointed, plans afoot to rebuild it I believe. Brum isn't too bad, quite small so pretty straight forward. Cov was great when that did passenger flights.
Yeah it is a decent little airport, that's what Cov could have been like had things gone differentlySoton is brilliant
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Only ever attempted to fly from there once. Never having gone there before, the bus let me off at the wrong stop and I had to lug my heavy suitcase about 2 miles to get to the terminal. I missed the flight. Had to get a taxi all the way back home to Coventry and then drive my car at 85 down the M1 to London to catch the same flight there. Just made it. Never again.
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