I had WPS on a flight recently and he basically said that he DID want to persue what he saw as the glaringly obvious need to expand into longhaul and take on the big boys with a superior product a la Moscow, but there "There was just no money made available to get some longhaul aeroplanes" so I'd say his hands were tied and that he came here with a vision of making bmi a real player but things have just not gone his way.