BMI Baby AXED routes

[Simon Lumley]

BMI Baby routes AXED since its launch in March 2002:

Munich - from Cardiff and East Midlands
Milan (Bergamo) - from Cardiff and East Midlands
Copenhagen - Went on sale for 2 weeks then scrapped
Dublin - From Summer 2005
Nice - Transferred from East Midlands to Birmingham
Bordeaux - Transferred from East Midlands to Birmingham
Toulouse - From Summer 2005
Salzburg - Only operated in Winter 2002/3 from East Midlands
Knock/Connaught - Transferred from East Midlands to Birmingham
Barcelona - Could not get desired flight timings from E. Midlands
Brussels (Transeferred to BMI Regional)
Pisa - only operated in Summer 2003 from East Midlands...

A LOT OF BAD ROUTE DECISIONS THEN!!!!!!

[Tom the Tenor]

It is all swings and roundabouts - you win some and you lose some. By the way, you forgot ORK-LGW which is due to finish at end January, 2005 when EZY starts double daily to Cork. BHX-ORK will make up for it so no lessening of the WW show at Cork!

[alterego]

Why oh why do people spend so much time knocking Baby?

If you look at almost every airline they have pulled off routes because they aren't successful. Surely this is better than continuing those routes and going bust?

Baby is profitable at present, enough said!

[pipertommy]

Do you you know when baby will put the third a/c back into cardiff?

[alterego]

Pipertommy

Unless its an ATR 42 then not for a fairly long time.

[egnxema]

bmibaby fleet

baby currently has 18 aircraft on its list

6 x 735 and 12 733's 5x735's are due for disposal, leaving a fleet of 13 737's.

So far, next year looks like:-

EMA 4
BHX 3
MAN 3
CWL 2
MME 1

[GOLF-INDIA BRAVO]

Copied from another site

Manchester appears to have 4 aircraft


"Manchesters destinations for summer 05, 4 based aircraft, 10 destinations...

Belfast (International) £4.99
Cork £9.99 £26.94
Knock £9.99 £26.94
Jersey £14.99
Bordeaux £19.99
Prague £19.99
Alicante £19.99
Malaga £19.99
Palma £19.99
Murcia £29.99"


Golf India Bravo

[b mi baby]

bmi baby making a profit!

Baby is profitable at present, enough said!

alterego, perhaps you would like to qualify your statement or at least point us towards a source of the information you have. bmi baby accounts have not been posted this year as the group claimed an exemption under section 249AA(I) of the Companies Act 1985. Perhaps your statement is based on a 'hunch' which is fair enough. My 'hunch' is that at best bmi baby is making a loss and it is about to find the going considerably more difficult, especially in MAN as easyjet move in.

[egnxema]

b mi baby,

easyJet moving into MAN - can you quote a source for that one?

[GOLF-INDIA BRAVO]

I am told that there will be an announcement from Manchester Airport on Monday evening along with details of some other new services ( Air India to name one )

Golf India Bravo

[This Charming Man]

What ? At the TAS meeting ?

[alterego]

b mi baby

Sir Michael was quoted in the press as saying Baby's profitability had helped reduce the groups losses.

Tony Davis has said similar that's all I know.