Ok Peel I stand corrected but where Peel were when they bought Sheffield City is a very different place to now being the owner of LPL, DSA and MME.
As for the Lufthansa/bmi takeover announced today, it has all but ended any hope of a) bmi the company and b) a MME-LHR route beyond next summer as I understand that LH will exercise its purchase in January.
Poor old bmi employees-a once proudly british airline now going to be reduced to a page in the history books...