Strengthening of BMIbaby Management
It's amused me over the past few weeks to read all the Naysayers' predictions for the industry, inlcuding all the possible mergers and acquisitions that are apparently going to happen. It would make things very interesting if they all actually happened.
I agree that BMI and Baby could do things differently, and would love to see more new routes and planes etc, but would far rather they stuck to the bread & butter routes and survived.
Anyhow if indeed BMI was about to close, or the board is 'fed up' with them, why would they be recruiting senior people?
"Bmibaby has appointed Julian Carr as commercial director, due to join in May 2008.
He joins from IATA (International Air Transport Association) in Canada where he was head of marketing and new business development.
Before that, he was managing director at MyTravelLite, the low-cost airline owned by the MyTravel Group.
Carr will work closely with the airline’s managing director Crawford Rix. "
The source for the above was Travelmole, but it's been widely reported elsewhere.