Major changes at Birmingham Airport ahead of busiest summer ever in 2025

Birmingham Airport (BHX) is investing further in its infrastructure to ensure ease of travel through the airport for its customers.

It is expanding its arrivals hall with over £10 million in upgrades. The work includes a new baggage carousel and more border control desks to help process growing passenger numbers.

The next two projects, as part of its previously announced £100m capital spend up to 2033, will benefit those customers arriving through the airport.

The first stage is an additional baggage carousel to complement the existing six within its ‘north’ departure baggage make-up area. As passenger numbers at Birmingham Airport increases, the demand for baggage capacity increases.

The development of the extra carousel will be ready for the busy summer peak and sees an investment of £4.2m for this project.

The second part of development will benefit arriving customers in the ‘south’ arrivals area.

A full reconfiguration is underway that will expand the south immigration area, and the baggage reclaim area, before the summer peak. This project will provide an increase from five to eight primary control points, that are operated by UK Border Force and will future proof the introduction of E-gates.

These additional desks will ensure that UK Border Force has a larger immigration hall to process arriving passengers into BHX.

In addition to the extra primary control points for the border, existing baggage carousels will be increased to accommodate more bags. These changes to the Immigration and Baggage Hall will permit an increase in the amount of arriving flights that BHX can process in this area to up to eight an hour, at an investment of £6.4m.