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[Blazer85]

Birmingham International set a new record for passenger traffic in a year.

Over the course of 2007, approximately 3,222,689 passengers came through Birmingham International Airport.  That bests the old record (set in 2005) by about 100,000.

Keep it growing!

[rolltider]

Blazer85, on Jan 22 2008, 10:14 PM, said:

Birmingham International set a new record for passenger traffic in a year.

Over the course of 2007, approximately 3,222,689 passengers came through Birmingham International Airport.  That bests the old record (set in 2005) by about 100,000.

Keep it growing!

This is great news and should leave no doubt that renovation, upgrade and expansion of the terminal is needed.  

Are there any projections for passenger activity at the airport over the next 10 years?

[Blazer85]

January 2008 numbers...  234,931 passengers passed through Birmingham International Airport.  That's a 4.5% increase from January 2007.  Looks like we're on pace for another record-breaking year at the airport.  Now if only we could get the expansion/modernization plan underway.

[Blazer85]

Today, it was announced that Continental Airlines will be adding 2 new non-stop flights from Birmingham to Cleveland.

In a time with such a bad economic outlook and so many bad economic indicators, I find this to be good news that flights are continuing to be added at Birmingham International Airport. In fact, the airport continues to grow at a pretty steady rate and has set numerous records in terms of passenger traffic over the last year or so. Hopefully they'll get going on the new expansion/modernization of the terminal.

[Blazer85]

The passenger numbers for February were released today.  During the month of February, BHM saw 235,174 passengers through its gates.  That is about a 9% increase from February of 2007.

[Blazer85]

April's passenger traffic numbers are out and records continue to be set.  April 2008 saw the 13th consecutive month of increasing passenger traffic.  Approximately 272,399 passed through BHM during the month of April.  

From January-April of 2008, over 1 million passengers have come through the gates at BHM... up more than 5% from a year ago.

[kayman]

Well, it is official the Birmingham International Airport has been renamed the Birmingham Shuttlesworth International Airport, and the only step left is the approval from the Federal Aviation Administration.

[kayman]

Although Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International has seen another month where the annual passengers that used the airport has decline 14% since this time last year, the Airport Authority is moving forward with the estimated $193.3M plan to renovate the terminal.  KPS has been selected as the designers of the plan called the Terminal Modernization Program for its 36-year-old facility.

[Southron]

kayman, on Jun 24 2009, 04:01 PM, said:

Although Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International has seen another month where the annual passengers that used the airport has decline 14% since this time last year, the Airport Authority is moving forward with the estimated $193.3M plan to renovate the terminal.  KPS has been selected as the designers of the plan called the Terminal Modernization Program for its 36-year-old facility.

Are any preliminary drawings available?

[kayman]

Southron, on Jun 25 2009, 08:43 AM, said:

Are any preliminary drawings available?

Not yet, I've searched a number of places including the airport's site and no prelimiaries.