Flights from Heathrow to Brussels, Tel Aviv, Kiev and Aleppo will be suspended in early 2010 with services from Heathrow to Amsterdam being suspended at the end of the winter 2009/10 period. We will however still continue to offer services from London to Brussels through our codeshare agreement with Brussels Airlines. In addition to these route suspensions the seasonal services from Heathrow to Palma and Venice will not be reinstated in summer 2010.
This will mean in 2010 a total of nine mainline aircraft are surplus to requirements compared to 2009. This includes two of the five Embraers operating on mainline routes that will be returned to bmi regional. Leases will not be extended on aircraft when they expire in the first half of 2010, including two of the three long haul Airbus A330 aircraft. We will therefore continue to serve mid haul markets with two long-range aircraft and our fleet of A321
We expect to reduce our mainline capacity in 2010 by removing the nine aircraft from the fleet and suspending seven unprofitable routes. Regrettably this has an inevitable consequence on the number of staff required for the remaining business. We anticipate that in bmi mainline and bmi regional nearly 600 fewer full-time equivalent positions will be needed to support the reduced flying programme. Job reductions will affect all areas of the business. Additional job losses cannot be ruled out as we further restructure corporate overhead functions in line with a reduced flying programme and further communications will follow. There will be no room to carry surplus jobs in any part of the business
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