Merger
Not that old nugget again. That has been done to death. BMI are not intrested in buying VA!!!!, if it happens it happens. Why spend all that money on setting up longhaul op's out of LHR if your going to sell. Why spend all that money keeping a route going buy leasing another airline and re-traing some of your crew, that does not make much sense. (OH that sounds like bmi!!)
I believe that they still have the 4th origional option for an A330 available that was defered (Emirates took it) and that will be available around October.