The old lounge wasn't big enough to swing a cat and you'd needed to be a silver or gold card holder to get in there.So if you've bought a business ticket you have to sit in gate 11 with everyone else looking at a cafe thats never open.
If they are opening a new lounge that will allow all C class cutomer access then i think it will help get more people to sit forward of the curtain, which at Leeds used to be an hell of a lot plus with the Bus coming sometime in the new year that should help.
As for Jet2 they are at this time having no negative effect on bmi in fact the opposite, as a lot of new people flying from Leeds (with Jet2) are discovering that bmi have quite a good route net work with (at times!) some very good fares.
When Jet2 first advertised that it intended to operate from Leeds, it ask the good folk of Yorkshire where they wanted to travel to, and many replied "Paris" unaware that bmi have been going there for years but, bmi been bmi never told anyone.
Still it will test the resolve of the poor old Glasgow paxs to endure the ATR of Titan for the next 5 weeks due to heavy maintenance on the ERJ's
