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Plane Tickets to Birmingham, Alabama The best way to find cheap airline tickets to Birmingham
is either from online booking sites or directly from the
airlines which provide service to the area.
Check out first with online booking
sites and visit airline sites for special fare sales to
airports nearby Birmingham.
Nonstop commercial passenger flights to/from
Birmingham are available from many cities such as Atlanta, Baltimore, Charlotte,
Chicago, Cincinnati, Dallas/Ft. Worth,
Denver, Detroit, Houston, Jacksonville, Las Vegas, Louisville, Memphis,
Nashville,
Newark/New York, New Orleans, New York, Orlando, Philadelphia/Wilmington,
Phoenix, St. Louis, Tampa.
Following airlines provide daily nonstop service in and out of
Birmingham International Airport.
City Info (from the city of Birmingham)
Though Birmingham stands in the heart of the Deep
South, it is not an Old South city.
Founded in 1871 at the crossing of two railroad lines, the city blossomed
through the early 1900s as it rapidly became the South's foremost industrial
center. Iron and steel production were a natural for Birmingham; underground lay
abundant key ingredients---coal, iron ore and limestone. As an industry town,
Birmingham suffered greatly in the Depression. After World War II the city grew
moderately while retaining its strong Southern character.
At the same time a profound movement toward diversification was afoot. The
huffing and puffing of Birmingham's legendary iron and steel mills was gradually
replaced by a work force of medical and engineering professionals. Today,
Birmingham enjoys a balance of manufacturing and service-oriented jobs in a
thriving work force.
Birmingham is a Southern city that is---all at once---young, traditional,
vibrant, friendly, complex and, some even say, exotic. The eccentricities of the
South and Southerners have been widely noted in literature and on film.
Unlike some larger Southern cities that have chosen to trade soul for growth and
development, Birmingham has retained its true Southern character; it has been
said that Birmingham is the last major Southern city in America. That is because
it is impossible for us to become like every place else.
Birmingham is a distinctive and comfortable place to visit and to live. While we
continue to grow more sophisticated, we also treasure many of the ways of the
small-town South. One can enjoy asparagus salad with roasted pecan dressing at
an elegant salon for lunch, and look forward to supper at a cafe serving
country-fried steak and butter beans. The audience at the symphony concert will
discuss college football games coming up the next day. And the highbrow patrons
of the Charity Ball will be elbow-to-elbow the next morning with workers on a
Habitat for Humanity home.
It is diversity that is our greatest strength and our strongest appeal. We talk
about progress, but with a decidedly Southern accent. We are a spectrum of
attitudes and cultures, all a part of the charm and exoticism that is the South.
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