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Live flight boards
Arrivals and departures each have their own live board for the hours ahead.
The arrivals board and the departures board show Birmingham's flights for the hours ahead: the flight number, the airline, the airport at the other end and the time, kept up to date through the day so a delay or a cancellation shows as it happens. They are the quick way to check what is flying and when, whether you are catching a flight or meeting one.
Everything at Birmingham flies from one terminal, so there is no which-terminal question to settle before you set off. If you are collecting someone, the arrivals page pairs with the guide to picking someone up, including where to wait and what it costs. Seeing someone off by car, read the drop-off charges first. Flying yourself, the check-in and security guides cover the airport side of the trip.
Where you can fly
More than 140 destinations have a direct flight from Birmingham.
Birmingham's network is built for holidays and family visits. The bulk of it is short-haul: Spain and the islands, Portugal, Greece, Turkey, Italy and the big European cities, with the Canaries carrying the winter load. The airport's own count runs to more than 140 direct destinations, with over 650 more reachable on one stop through the hub carriers. Demand keeps setting records: 13,654,108 passengers used the airport in 2025, the highest figure in its history.
Long-haul is a small but serious layer. Emirates flies to Dubai and Qatar Airways to Doha, the two Gulf hubs that put most of Asia and Australia one stop away. Saudia serves Jeddah, and Air India links Birmingham with Delhi and Amritsar non-stop, routes that matter enormously to the region's families. TUI adds long-haul leisure, including Cancun and Montego Bay.
The destinations guide lists everywhere you can fly direct and which airline goes there, including the routes that do not have their own guide below. For live schedules and booking, the airport publishes its own where we fly map.
Route guides
Dublin is the busiest route from Birmingham; the biggest and most asked-about routes each have their own guide.
UK Civil Aviation Authority figures for 2025 put Dublin clearly on top, with 871,092 passengers, ahead of Dubai on 607,026 and Amsterdam on 589,928. Palma, Alicante, Tenerife and Malaga fill the next four places, a fair summary of what the airport is for, with Antalya, Paris and Belfast rounding out the top ten (Antalya and Belfast are covered in the destinations guide).
Each guide below covers the airlines on the route, how often they fly, the flight time and when to book:
- Dublin: the busiest route of all, flown by Aer Lingus and Ryanair
- Dubai: the Emirates long-haul flagship and second-busiest route overall
- Amritsar: non-stop to Punjab with Air India
- Doha: Qatar Airways into its worldwide network
- Amsterdam: KLM and easyJet to Schiphol, third-busiest in 2025
- Paris: Air France and easyJet to Charles de Gaulle
- Alicante: the Costa Blanca run, fifth-busiest in 2025
- Malaga: the Costa del Sol staple
- Tenerife: the biggest winter-sun route
- Palma: Majorca, fourth-busiest in 2025
Airlines
More than 25 airlines fly from Birmingham.
The leisure names carry most of the traffic: Ryanair, Jet2 (based here since 2017), easyJet, TUI and Wizz Air between them run the bulk of the holiday schedule. Aer Lingus covers Dublin and Belfast City, and the hub carriers connect Birmingham to the world: KLM through Amsterdam, Air France through Paris, Lufthansa and its group airlines through Frankfurt and Munich, Turkish Airlines, Pegasus and SunExpress across Istanbul and the Turkish coast, and Emirates, Qatar Airways, Saudia and Air India on the long-haul routes above. Regional links from Aurigny and Loganair, and seasonal operators like Corendon, fill out the picture.
The airlines guide lists every carrier with where it flies, which matters when the same route is flown by two airlines at very different prices.
Cancellations and delays
A cancelled flight comes with rights, and the first hour is when they matter most.
When a flight is cancelled, the airline must offer you the choice of a refund or rebooking, and after a long enough delay it owes you care (food, drink, and a hotel if you are stuck overnight). Compensation on top depends on whose fault the disruption was. The cancelled flights guide walks through those UK261 rights step by step: what to do at the airport, who rebooks you, and when you are owed money. For today's picture, the arrivals and departures boards show a delay or a cancellation as it happens.