Looks to me like it will be very doubtful that we will ever start our own routes to the U.S out of LHR...... seems more likely that we will just codeshare with UA . They will bring the passengers in from U.S and bmi will be the Star Alliance carrier taking pax to the middle East....with Cairo and Tel Aviv being added to our routes...it really does appear as that is the direction SMB/NT are taking..
Obviously i could be totally wrong!!!