MINISTER LAUNCHES BIA’S NEW MASTER PLAN
The Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Transport, Jim Fitzpatrick, joined officials from Birmingham International Airport (BIA) and the region’s transport leaders today to celebrate the launch of the Airport’s new ‘Airport Master Plan’ and ‘Surface Access Strategy’, which form a blueprint for BIA’s future, up to 2030.
The new Airport Master Plan ‘Towards 2030: Planning A Sustainable Future for Air Transport in the Midlands’, outlines how BIA can grow sustainably whilst meeting the regional demand for air travel over the next 23 years. The Airport Surface Access Strategy entitled ‘Moving Together’ recognises the importance of surface access to the Airport, set within the context of a sustainable approach, and gives new targets, over a shorter period, up to the year 2012.
During his visit, the Minister unveiled two plaques at Birmingham International Interchange to highlight the Airport’s public transport success to date and to announce a new target for it to achieve 25% of all people travelling to BIA by public transport by 2012.
The Minister, said, “I'm very pleased to see Birmingham Airport setting a bold but achievable target to get more air passengers to use public transport to the airport. The Government wants an aviation industry which meets its own environmental costs and this initiative supports that vision.
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