premise: Birmingham uses an airport.
hypothesis: Birmingham Airport , formerly Birmingham International Airport and before that , Elmdon Airport is an international airport located 5.5 NM east southeast of Birmingham city centre , at Bickenhill in Solihull , England . 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 . Birmingham -- Shuttlesworth International Airport , formerly Birmingham Municipal Airport and later Birmingham International Airport , is a joint civil-military airport serving the city of Birmingham , Alabama and its metropolitan area , including Tuscaloosa , in the United States . BHM served 2,695,399 passengers in 2015 , and is the largest and busiest airport in the state of Alabama by passenger volume .