They have had at least 2 abortive attempts at LBA-CPH where the route has gone on sale and then been pulled before launch. Countless slot applications into various German airports, many of which resulted in wholly workable timings for services such as LBA-DUS or LBA-MUC and yet always handed back. Yet despite the obvious attractiveness of such routes (STAR connections, point to point business traffic, the economic rationale for consolidating at existing bases etc) they seem determined to pull ideas out of left field that seem entirely inconsistent with what a regional airline within the STAR umbrella shold be doing.
It may of course be the case that the regional people have lots of good ideas but are prevented from fulfilling them by the politics from the major shareholders in bmi. Pressure from SAS & Lufty at MAN has often been cited as the reason many LBA plans never get off the ground.
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