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Birmingham Airport, formerly Birmingham International Airport and before that, Elmdon Airport is an international airport located 5.5NM east southeast of Birmingham city centre, at Bickenhill in Solihull, England. It has a CAA Public Use Aerodrome Licence (Number P451) that allows flights for the public transport of passengers or for flying instruction.Passenger throughput in 2016 was over 11.6 million, making Birmingham the seventh busiest UK airport. The airport offers both domestic flights within the UK and international flights to destinations in Europe, the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent, North America and the Caribbean. Birmingham Airport is an operating base for BMI Regional, Flybe, Jet2.com, Monarch Airlines, Ryanair, Thomas Cook Airlines and Thomson Airways. From May 2018 the airport will become a new long haul base for Primera Air.