{"id":15041,"date":"2026-05-09T03:58:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T03:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/05\/09\/birmingham-shuttlesworth-international-airport-celebrates-its-95th-birthday-all-may-wbma\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T03:58:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T03:58:42","slug":"birmingham-shuttlesworth-international-airport-celebrates-its-95th-birthday-all-may-wbma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/05\/09\/birmingham-shuttlesworth-international-airport-celebrates-its-95th-birthday-all-may-wbma\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport celebrates its 95th birthday all May &#8211; WBMA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now<br \/>58<span class=\"WeatherWidget_degreeSymbol__vwqJi\">\u00b0<\/span><br \/>Sat<br \/>80<span class=\"WeatherWidget_degreeSymbol__vwqJi\">\u00b0<\/span><br \/>Sun<br \/>80<span class=\"WeatherWidget_degreeSymbol__vwqJi\">\u00b0<\/span><br \/>by<!-- --> <!-- -->Hannah Bazinaw<\/p>\n<p>Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport is celebrating serving the Magic City for 95 years. The airport&#x27;s birthday is technically May 31, but they&#x27;ll be celebrating this milestone all month long.<br \/>May 31, 1931, marked the day Birmingham-Shuttlesworth opened for business. That day also welcomed American Airways to the community, helping Birmingham&#x27;s airport business grow.<br \/>The airport had many memorable moments over the decades they&#x27;ve served Birmingham.<br \/>1986: The Birmingham City Council established the Birmingham Airport Authority (BAA) in 1986, bringing a new era of growth to our local transportation hub. It would be renamed as the Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport to honor civil rights activist Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth in 2008.<br \/>Now, you can fly out of Birmingham nonstop to 22 airports and 19 cities. They served 3.3 million people in 2025. <br \/> <!-- -->2026<!-- --> <!-- -->Sinclair, Inc.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMitAFBVV95cUxOOWhsOS05M0hLWjl5bXRJTjdHeHVNcXJxMzNuamR6bUN6UndWT2hPWXprSEhFRXlTbUM1WWduWnFUa25adXBDaWdfMUpPUi15UjBUd0NmeTZFN3Q3b3cyMWFzTkNNekN2T1Q5NDFlVGNjOHpPZmtJRnJfR21jNnBEWlVzOHQ2dlZYXzVCbFAxV2tFQkRQWHlVMkwzS2x4YU1abVg5aE1vS1p0OXpuLW9PM1Byei0?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now58\u00b0Sat80\u00b0Sun80\u00b0by Hannah Bazinaw Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport is celebrating serving the Magic City for 95 years. The airport&#x27;s birthday is technically May 31, but they&#x27;ll be celebrating this milestone all month long.May 31, 1931, marked the day Birmingham-Shuttlesworth opened for business. That day also welcomed American Airways to the community, helping Birmingham&#x27;s airport business grow.The airport [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15041","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}