Cheap Flights & Tickets To Birmingham

About Birmingham

Birmingham is a city rich in history and culture, and known as a center of the civil rights movement of the 1950's and 60's. Visitors who arrive to explore this unique Southern city on cheap flights to Birmingham will land at Birmingham International Airport (BHM), Alabama's largest airport, offering passenger conveniences that include shopping, food, wireless Internet access, a business center, and vehicle rental agencies.

Among the many important historical sites in the city is the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, a museum of history that chronicles the struggle for civil rights, and the16th Street Baptist Church, site of a bombing by the Ku Klux Klan in 1963 and a memorial to four girls killed in the infamous incident. Birmingham is also home to the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame, celebrating the roots of this uniquely American musical genre, and sports fans are sure to enjoy the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame. For family fun, there is the Birmingham Zoo and the Alabama Adventure, an amusement park, theme park, and water park.

Birmingham is home to twenty institutes of higher education, including the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Faulkner University, Birmingham School of Law, and Andrew Jackson University, adding many students to its population of 229,424 permanent residents every year. Birmingham's public transportation needs are met by a bus system and taxi services, and lodgings are plentiful in the city, with many clean and comfortable cheap motels in Birmingham.

Peak season for travel into Birmingham International Airport (BHM) is in the spring and fall, avoiding the tropical heat of the Alabama summer. Average airfare to Birmingham is about $250 from Chicago, $300 from Los Angeles, and around $400 from New York City, although travelers can find better rates by searching for cheap flights to Birmingham.