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Operation Information

Birmingham has one runway

    Runway
    Take-off Distance
    Landing Distance
    15
    2672m
    2280m
    33
    2745m
    2298m

Terminal Assignments

Airline
Terminals
Adria Airways 1
Aer Arann 1
Aer Lingus 1
Air France 2
Air Malta 1
Air Slovakia 1
Bmibaby 1
Brussels Airlines 1
City Airline 1
Continental Airlines 1
Cyprus Airways 1
Eastern Airways 1
Easyjet 1
Emirates 1
Eurocypria 1
Eurojet 1
European Air Charter 1
First Choice Airways 1
Flybe 2
KLM 2
KTHY 1
Lufthansa 1
Monarch 1
Pakistan International Airlines 1
Ryanair 2
SAS 1
SkyEurope Airlines 1
Swiss 1
Thomas Cook Airlines 1
Thomson Airways 1
Turkish Airlines 1
Turkmenistan 1

Lighting

Runway Lighting

  • High Intensity colour coded centre line lights at 15 metre intervals.
  • Elevated High Intensity Bi-directional edge lights with low intensity omni-directional component
  • Touchdown zone lights consisting of bars of 4 white lights. The bars are spaced at 77 metre intervals longitudinally and cover the first 900 metres of runway 15 and the first 914m of runway 33.
  • High Intensity uni-directional green elevated wingbar threshold lights
  • High Intensity red end bar lights across the whole width at the upwind end of the runway

PAPIs are installed on all runways and consist of 4 units on the left providing guidance in maintaining the required 3 degree approach angle.

Approach Lighting

  • 914 metre high white High intensity coded centre line with 5 crossbars
  • last 300 metres of approach lighting includes Supplementary Approach lights (SALS) consisting of 9 barrettes of 4 white lights dispersed about the centre line, and the same number of 4 red light barrettes either side.

Noise

The airport is surrounded by many built up areas. Various procedures have been designed to minimise disturbance to the local communities.

Preferential Selection of Runway

Birmingham operates a preferential runway scheme, whereby the North-Westerly runway (33) will be used for take-off and landing in preference to the South-Easterly runway (15), unless wind, or other factors dictate. Generally, it is to be said that:

"Runway 33 will normally be used in preference to 15 when the tailwind component is no greater than 5kts and the surface is dry"

The choice of runway configuration will be the decision of ADC.

Runway 06/24 is now closed and is not permitted to be used.


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