Here’s a big disappoint for Ozzy fans
One of the greatest local honours anyone can receive is to have an airport named after you. Liverpool, for example, officially has Liverpool John Lennon Airport. With that as a precedent, fans of Ozzy Osbourne wanted something similar for the airport in his hometown of Birmingham, England’s second-largest city after London, Its airport serves almost 12 million passengers a year, so it’s a significant facility.
Ozzy fans made their demands known through a petition, gathering 80,000 signatures. The goal was to rename the airport Ozzy Osbourne International, something might have triggered an airport code change from BHX to OZZ. (Unlikely, though, since that’s already the code for Ouarzazate Airport in Morocco.)
Alas, the CEO of BHX says that it’s not going to happen. The current name, he says, is “incredibly valuable for development.”
He continued: “Birmingham, amazingly, has an extraordinary list of fantastically influential people, going from historic people like Charles Darwin, as well as Robert Plant and Sir Lenny Henry, but the answer is no.” He’s not adverse to some kind of Ozzy/Black Sabbath mural, though.
Fans remain undeterred. Their campaign to have an actual Prince of Darkness airport (POD is an available code) will continue.
