This is simply yet another bid by bmi to get it's foot through the door to longhaul LHR. It knows full well that it owes it's existence to having the second largest allocation of unfair privilege (slots) at LHR and it wants to grab more.
Which makes the following statement somewhat hypocritical, does'nt it?
BMI chairman Michael Bishop says: “We are ready, willing and able to provide these extra services and with it vigorous new competition - and we would expect to receive a fair disposition of all the available frequencies.”
Maybe Air Europe, Laker, British Caledonian, Dan Air etc would still be around if they had received a "fair disposition of all the available frequencies".