"Interesting to see that they outperform AA on the ORD route after only 12 months operation"
Hasn't capacity on the route effectively doubled with the introduction of the bmi service? If so, and the split of traffic is 51% bmi, 49% AA - then it stands to reason that AA are carrying roughly the same number of passengers as they were before. Given the high numbers of inter-lining pax for whom ORD is merely a transit point there is no reason why the two services cannot run alongside each other. The battle for the hearts and minds of the relatively small O&D, business class market will be more telling in the long-run I suspect
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