Originally Posted by
cavokblues
Codeshares make sense for a lot of airlines. If you've a lot of high yielding pax up front paying for a premium service you might as well get £50 for seats which would otherwise be going empty.
Whether a codeshare would be appropriate for the current Flybe at this moment in time is up for debate.
The trouble is BMI allowed United unfettered access.
They were booking large groups months in advance.
advance, leaving flights full when business traffic tried to book.
We're talking groups sometimes of 80, some flights to LHR had ULDs which had BD to UA transfer baggage.
On the inbound often this luggage would not make it leaving BD to pick up the delivery tab.