Originally Posted by
frontcheck
That's called code-share, it is up to the airline/airport to decide if they want to show all the flight numbers on the screens. If you display all flights it takes an age to get back to the operating (BD) flight , if you don't then you have customers staring in confusion at the screens looking for which desks to check-in at. Your are damned if you do and you are damned if you dont, This problem is not unique to bmi.
I've never understood why codeshare needs to show all these dfferent flight numbers, with the confusion described, and elsewhere, why exactly the same codeshare benefits cannot obtain if the UK flight shows just BD123 instead of BD123, LH4567, GF 8910, etc, etc, especially as tickets then have to say "this flght is actually operated by BMI" if the code is different. What a good thing it doesn't carry forward to ATC callsigns !
Not totally off-topic for the BMI thread here as they steadily position themselves more as a Star feeder rather than an O&D operator.