airhumberside

Can anyone tell me who the following charters are for:

BD7017 to Ajjacio
BD7021 to Corfu
BD7099 to Dubrovnik
BD7001 to Catania
BD7005 to Cagliari
BD7007 to Dalaman

They run all summer season according to Airport Timetables UK, Part 1

Thanks

bmiboyz

LHR to CFU and Dubrovnik are for Tapestry Holidays

LHR to DLM and MAN to DLM are for Hidden Turkey

LHR to CAG and AJO are for Sardatur I think.

DRJ

Any questions regarding bmi charter ?

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ajamieson

Charters out of LHR? Good grief

airhumberside

Thanks. Are the flights out of LHR just to avoid costs positioning the aircraft to LGW or STN? Any chance the bigger tour operators might take seats on these flights?

GW76

Someone else experimented with charters from LHR. Was it Air 2000 in the early 90's ?

Young Paul

bmi has been doing charters from LHR for years.

WHBM

These BMI charters have been going on for years, winter and summer. They use marginal time in the aircraft programmes on Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning (and a few overnights) when BD has more LHR slots and aircraft available than it can use for its normal destinations. The aircraft are the regular scheduled fleet rather than the charter-config ones BD use more permanently out of some provincial points. For many years some of the Heathrow flights were to oddball places on the north coast of Spain.

Strangely I've never seen any publicity by a travel company for any of these flights; their marketing must be very low-key.

moleslayer

I have regularly flown these charters for bmi in the past. They operate all through the summer months, usually for small specialist travel agents. A couple of the regular routes are Ajaccio & Volos, and always full.
I presume the responsibility to fill the flight rests with the agent, not bmi.

moley

wan2fly

Hi

As above - Hidden Turkey are very very up market with a wonderful product - they have the BMI charter and sell it extremely well - they dont want to put pax on a AC with knees up to chin I think they have the right idea.

I also think Holiday options use BMI to Sardinia and Corsica - I may be wrong tho.

Little Blue

All I know is that it makes for a very interesting
weekend shift in Ops !
There certainly seems to be more this year
and, fingers crossed, everything tends to run reasonably smoothly
despite (or maybe inspite) of LHR not being a "charter airport ".
The downside is the Embraers operating on some of our schedule
rotations (downside, due to the capacity, of course !)

eventmanager

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BD7017 to Ajjacio Simply Travel (TUI UK.)
BD7021 to Corfu Tapestry Holidays
BD7099 to Dubrovnik Tapestry Holidays
BD7001 to Catania City Jet
BD7005 to Cagliari Sardatur
BD7007 to Dalaman Exclusive Escapes

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