Gosh UKLad you sound like you could work in the Lufthansa/bmi accounts department!!
Well it sounds more hopeful when put like that. Following yesterday's announcement, though, bloomberg reported that LH wanted to use the bmi slots at LHR to start A380 Longhaul operations under the LH name.
It may be interesting times ahead...all I know is I was wanting to book a bmi flight to connect longhaul next August from MME or LBA but now may have to think BA from NCL or MAN instead!