Even if we assume bmi regional makes money as a standalone outfit, LH retaining it would seem a bit like keeping a remote little dot in an empire. Regional makes its money by flying UK centric routes - it doesn't do a lot of flying to Germany that LH cannot do on its own metal using core LH back office processes. It seems unlikely that regional will be turned into a UK equivalent of Air Dolomiti. Keeping regional only burns up more LH management time. Either regional has to survive as a standalone or it has to be part of an airline which has or wants to have a strong UK focus.
Last edited by davidjohnson6; 31st Jan 2012 at 14:34.