Actually Hanover is operated for Lufthansa.
Naples was operated for a limited period during the good times when the city folk had their cash bonuses to burn on expensive Tuscan Villas.
With the £-€ rate currently so poor and combined with economic recession demand has collapsed.
Milan –Linate, Paris, Madrid and Swiss Cities were part of the BMI failed strategy of head on competition with BA and the LCCs and all now gone.
Currently only Venice and Palma survive as primarily leisure routes out of LHR and come the autumn I expect these to go too. They add little to the LH/*A alliance.
These may well be replaced by Minsk and Lening… oh sorry St Petersburg for instance
Venice and indeed Naples and several other Italian Cities can be reached via Munich on partner group companies Lufthansa /Air Dolimiti.and soon via the new Milan –MXP LH.it services.
Palma surely is best left the LCC and Leisure airlines such as Monarch/Easy operating out of other London terminals and the slot pairs used for something else more profitably.
The clear vision for bmi (LH,uk) is to be a medium-haul specialist carrier serving Eastern edges of Europe (Moscow/Kiev), Central Asia (Oil and Gas traffic) and Middle East all complementing LH’s own operations in these regions.
Many of these services should be timed to make good connections with Air Canada TALC services (especially for the gas/oil traffic) and to a lesser extent United over Chicago/ Washington Dullas hubs. Beyond this any other *A connections are best served over FRA/MUC hubs and even the CDN/US- Central Asia traffic could just as well go via FRA/MUC if truth be told.
The remaining Heathrow short haulers are primarily domestic feeder flights to GLA/EDI/Aberdeen/MAN plus Dublin Amsterdam and Brussels and these each have merits for their own continuance (Subject to some frequency adjustments)
GLA/EDI/MAN and Dublin provide important feed for bmi’s own services and partner *A operator connections for UAL/ACA/ANZ/SAA/ANA particularly plus Singapore and Thai to a lesser extent.
Amsterdam also feeds into these *A services however many of the services can be just as easily reached over FRA/MUC.
There is however some residual Oil/Gas traffic to attract particularly Anglo-Dutch companies.
Brussels well they now code-share with fellow LH subsidiary SN .SN presence in the BRU-LON market is now just two flights Sun-Fri and one on a Sat morning into Gatwick!
Finally I expect bmi to take over a few of the marginal UK-German routes such as Cologne (Previously operated for LH from STN!), and either Stuttgart or Hamburg from CLH/DLH in addition to the TXL service. These may well utilise bmi--Regional aircraft and free up DLH aircraft for redeployment and/or withdrawal (Particularly of the dedicated Cologne B735 unit)