sweetie76,
I don't think that's what he/she's saying at all. Surely you can understand that if bmi doesn't have the correct aircraft in the fleet to provide the extra capacity required, then, in the short term, there is no option but to lease in other aircraft.
I know this is an absolute pain in the @rse for those SFO's waiting for their command, but you can't seriously be suggesting that because these aircraft are not bmi's flown by bmi crew then the business should stagnate and potentially miss out on large growth on these routes until the correct aircraft can be aquired?
As Old King Cole says, as annoying as this is, it does make sound commercial sense, and this has absolutely no parrellels to the BA/Openskies issue.