BMI Manchester gets 767 loses A330

[thewhites]

BMI to send another A330 from manchester down to Heathrow and replace with a 767 from january. Only one A330 left then, looks like another nail in the coffin of BMI manchester longhaul!!!!

[DW11]

Iceair or Atlanta by any chance?

[lexxity]

Why? Where is the 330 operating?

[thewhites]

Not sure where operating to perhaps Jeddah from what hearing.

[Mr @ Spotty M]

lexxity
I would think that the extra A330 at LHR, will be operating more flights to India.

[Tom the Tenor]

I was at Manchester on Monday. The 757 going to Washington had a very poor load so no 767 needed there anyway.

[GrahamK]

IAD being cancelled from MAN anyway

[thewhites]

Base meeting manchester yesterday with the big wigs. Manchester to lose A330 in order for it to go to LHR (therefore 2 A/C) and MAN to get 767 to operate Caribbean. The remaining A330 at MAN to continue ORD. All set to happen in january!!!

[Max Angle]

It's down to the fact that the 330s are due heavy maintenance shortly (going to Manila I think) and a replacement aircraft is required to fill the gap.

[Fried_Chicken]

wheres the 767 coming from? Icelandair like the 757?

Fried Chicken

[lexxity]

What happened to the 330 that was alledgedly arriving in October?

[expelair]

confirmed at base meeting no new A330 till 2007 and only if the board makes it mind up.

[energiser]

confirmed at base meeting no new A330 till 2007 and only if the board makes it mind up.

So that'll be never then

[Desk Driver]

wheres the 767 coming from? Icelandair like the 757?

It won't be Icelandair as they'll then be exposed on their KEF - SFO route.

I'm pretty sure a 75' won't make that non stop

[expelair]

Will the 767 make LAS, i think not. I understand that bmi ops are not happy with the idea as the A/C performance is not what they are used too.

[sevenforeseven]

Another nail in the coffin!!

[teifiboy]

give it a break

you mean yet another nail in the coffin. Feel sorry the guy having to do the nailing because he seems to have been doing it for years according to some people

[jamesbrownontheroad]

At this point, could somebody please explain some BMI logic for me. I know, I know, that's a contradiction in terms, but try anyway...

The costs of moving an A330 to LHR and basing it there for the Mumbai services when the fleet had previously been used solely at MAN must have been crazy. Were there any sound reasons for not keeping the a/c ooop north and operating a daily MAN-LHR-BOM-LHR-MAN rotation? It would have opened up both MAN and LHR to the services and it might also have brought on some juicy extra capacity between LHR and MAN during peak times?

Ta,

*j*

[teifiboy]

maybe because the aim was/is to do a daily service

MAN-LHR-BOM-LHR-MAN could not realistically be achieved in a 24 hour period

..and why complicate things with a Manchester sector anyway?

[MarkD]

jamesbrown

flogging a 330 on MAN-LHR sector length makes no sense to anyone with a brain.

Which of course excludes the Irish Department of Transport, whose policies keep 330s flogging the DUB-SNN route...