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Oh we do love the MAN base !
Keep bringing those cakes down to Ops/crewing whilst yr on yr recurrents !
Good luck to all on the Airbus course !
Keep bringing those cakes down to Ops/crewing whilst yr on yr recurrents !
Good luck to all on the Airbus course !
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few bmi questions
I'd seen a rumour on pprune that bmi were going to withdraw the 330s from MAN and put them down at LHR, but can't find the thread. Can anyone confirm?
Also, i've heard that the 320 at leeds has been withdrawn and the LHR service is now done on the erj. If true, what are the 320 pilots based at LBA doing (presumably if it's been withdrawn early there's still airbus pilots based there)
Cheers folks!
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Also, i've heard that the 320 at leeds has been withdrawn and the LHR service is now done on the erj. If true, what are the 320 pilots based at LBA doing (presumably if it's been withdrawn early there's still airbus pilots based there)
Cheers folks!
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The A330s are going to be on the CAI and TLV routes, I believe. ORD, LAS and the caribbean destinations have been discontinued from MAN.
The airbus is seen on some, select, high volume LBA-LHR flights, mainly Friday evenings and Monday mornings, IIRC. The rest of the flights are, indeed, operated by the ERJ. Not sure what the crews are doing, I assume operating from MAN or LHR, as required. They are also likely to be found on any charter operations BD may be running.
Brian.
The airbus is seen on some, select, high volume LBA-LHR flights, mainly Friday evenings and Monday mornings, IIRC. The rest of the flights are, indeed, operated by the ERJ. Not sure what the crews are doing, I assume operating from MAN or LHR, as required. They are also likely to be found on any charter operations BD may be running.
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bmi 'revised' logo
bmi, British Midland International are introducing a 'new' or revised logo.
"To address the low levels of brand awareness, part of the strategy was changing our name to "bmi, British Midland International" at the start of 2010. We have found that having the words “British” and “International” now gives us a stronger position in the market.
Since then we have been working on all the other elements of the new brand name and we are pleased to introduce our new logo which will start to be used within the coming weeks."
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"To address the low levels of brand awareness, part of the strategy was changing our name to "bmi, British Midland International" at the start of 2010. We have found that having the words “British” and “International” now gives us a stronger position in the market.
Since then we have been working on all the other elements of the new brand name and we are pleased to introduce our new logo which will start to be used within the coming weeks."
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To be filed under the "It was so obvious that most of us knew this when you dropped the titles in the first place and stated bmi doesn't actually stand for anything"
Meanwhile thousands of pounds later.....
In fairness that's all completely secondary to yet another decent move in the right direction. Now please lose the utterly useless and frustrating INDIAN CALL CENTRE that called me back today, got my name wrong again and then just got worse...
Meanwhile thousands of pounds later.....
In fairness that's all completely secondary to yet another decent move in the right direction. Now please lose the utterly useless and frustrating INDIAN CALL CENTRE that called me back today, got my name wrong again and then just got worse...
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It looks like they took the One World logo, deleted the words oneworld and replaced it with bmi!
If the research shows it will gain a stronger brand recognition then fair play, but as Skipness says, a bit of realisation a few years back would have saved the hassle.
And yeah, that call centre... Not good.
If the research shows it will gain a stronger brand recognition then fair play, but as Skipness says, a bit of realisation a few years back would have saved the hassle.
And yeah, that call centre... Not good.
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Does anybody know if bmi regional will continue to operate for Brussels Airlines from NCL and BRS with ER4s? The GDS shows ARJ as from spring next year on these routes? Anybody knows more about it?
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BHX/MAN Based A320's
"bmi, British Midland International are pleased to announce that we have won a contract to provide two A320 aircraft on wet-lease for a period of 2 years beginning in the summer of 2011.
The aircraft will be based in Birmingham and Manchester and will fly services to Mainland Europe."
bmibaby? Lufthansa?
The aircraft will be based in Birmingham and Manchester and will fly services to Mainland Europe."
bmibaby? Lufthansa?
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"bmi, British Midland International are pleased to announce that we have won a contract to provide two A320 aircraft on wet-lease for a period of 2 years beginning in the summer of 2011.
I doubt it has anything to do with bmibaby as surely there would be no need for a press release and would just operate on behalf of them anyway?
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Might be tour operators, but I also know bmi baby at MAN has used bmi mainline aircraft for prolonged periods of time in the past (also saw a bmi A321 at PMI operating a WW flight back to MAN)
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Boh & Sou
bmiregional were, at one point, said to be wanting to operate a BOH-MAN and a SOU-AMS route at some point in the recent past. Is this something that is completely dead or could be re-visited?
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Might be tour operators, but I also know bmi baby at MAN has used bmi mainline aircraft for prolonged periods of time in the past (also saw a bmi A321 at PMI operating a WW flight back to MAN)