Airport jobs boost with £5m investment
Eurojet Aviation is ploughing £5m into an expansion at Birmingham Airport. The aircraft management company will construct a 41,000 sq ft complex and aims to create 50 jobs through the scheme.
Plans submitted by Belfast-based Eurojet include a maintenance facility, a full service fixed base operator (FBO), and a commercial operations centre and aircraft sales suite.
The maintenance facility is set for completion by the end of the year. Eurojet will also base two of its managed Cessna Citation aircraft at the new FBO.
Eurojet's managing director Graeme Campbell said: "Eurojet has operated from Birmingham for over 20 years and we are absolutely delighted to be locating this world-class development at such a high-profile airport in the heart of the country.
"The complete operational flexibility offered by Birmingham Airport – together with the tremendous support from the airport for the project – were decisive factors in selecting Birmingham, which is also the perfect location for the expansion of our FBO activities."
Birmingham Airport’s chief executive Paul Kehoe said that the investment "represents an important development in the establishment of an aircraft maintenance cluster in the West Midlands".
