Bmibaby

[Deep and fast]

Things should improve with PD's promotion if his reputation is anything to go by.

D and F

[stuart-travel]

ema-jer 2011

Oliww ;
Is the jer-ema still planned for 2011, as we are planning tours on the ema-jer with coach connection from towns and city to the south of the airport.

regards
stuart

[OliWW]

stuart-travel
You can never be 100% confident on any route returning, but the fact bmibaby have operated this route from almost the very start, 2004 I think, and the fact it is still operational during the winter suggests very likely that it should be back

[aidoair]

Will defently be back and will be on sale in the next few weeks... MAN-AMS I am not sure about, but highly likely to be back I'd have thought, pax numbers have been fair on those flights

Would be great to see baby back on the MAN-AMS route, though with it finishing at the beggining of the summer schedules, I doubt to see it back untill at least more commitment to aircraft based at MAN. Add to this with the rumour of EZY starting a daily / possibly 2x daily service on the route from the winter then more unlikely.

As stated more routes to be on sale soon including the domestics and AMS, CDG etc. Also in regards to the T-w-i-tt-e-r Q&A session with Julian Carr bmibaby's MD, new routes could also be in the pipeline for next summer. Watch this space was the phrase used...

[INKJET]

CDG AMS BFS & JER are all domestics for baby and operate year round, the website has been tweaked since first thing with Dubrovnik now added.

The BOH route was a hangover from previous management, but was given a chance, wrong aircraft for the route, i would expect some new routes but not many two or three at most.

Things are settling down at baby in the post Bishop era,with a new management team and much less short term-ism view of the world, Ryanair falling out with EMA (MAG) would help, but i can't see it myself

[planenut321]

Baby Summer 2011 and CWL

From what I can see, we will need a 3rd aircraft for next summer with 3 departures some mornings between 6-7am, Edinburgh becoming 2 daily and maybe Belfast staying. Also room for new routes.
This is for the week 6th June. Routes such as MAH increase to 3 weekly later in summer.

Monday
A1
MUC 07:00-11:55
A2
AGP 07:10-13:15
MJV 17:10-23:05
A3
PMI 06:00-11:30
FAO 12:00-18:00
ALC 18:30-00:15

Tuesday
A1
AGP 07:10-13:15
ALC 17:05-22:50
A2
MUC 07:00-11:55
FAO 15:45-21:45
A3
PMI 07:00-12:30

Wednesday
A1
ALC 14:20-20:05
A2
AGP 07:10-13:15
A3
#

Thursday
A1
PMI 07:00-12:30
ALC 15:45-21:30
A2
AGP 07:10-13:15
FAO 17:05-23:05
A3
#

Friday
A1
MUC 07:00-11:55
ALC 17:10-22:55
A2
AGP 07:10-13:15
MAH 18:25-23:55
A3
PMI 06:00-11:30
MJV 12:00-17:55

Saturday
A1
AGP 06:15-12:15
ALC 12:55-18:40
FAO 19:10-01:10
A2
FAO 11:55-17:15
PMI- 17:45-23:15
A3
#

Sunday
A1
AGP 06:15-12:15
MAH 12:55-18:25
ALC 18:55-00:40
A2
MJV 06:30-12:55
MUC 17:50-22:45
A3
PMI 12:45-18:15

[DomyDom]

Anyone know when the new bmibaby MAN routes are likely to go on sale for 2011? And if so any roumers on what they are? Thanks.

[aidoair]

Any news or rumours on baby? All has gone a little quiet since the summer 2011 route releases...

Anyone have an idea when the rest of the summer routes will go on sale? i.e the domestics and possibilities of new routes at all?

[INKJET]

Aidoair

What is on sale now and assuming the likes of EDI,GLA,BFS,CDG,AMS remain much as they are this Summer then it needs at least 14 aircraft as now, not sure if any hand backs are due this winter, but 2 of the 14 were lease extensions?

New routes

Wouldn't expect much, it will be interesting to what if any response baby have to Jet2 expansion at EMA,

With Ryanair, baby & Jet2 all adding capacity at EMA this year and next and BHX in decline with LoCo's will baby add units in BHX?

I suspect Ryanair will not add any more based units at EMA for 2011 but (Ryanair) with based units in most of the popular Med destinations they don't need to and EMA is fast running out of over night parking in Summer

[wanna_be_there]

Inkjet,

Mr Carr (bmi baby head) has said MAN will get more routes and more based aircraft.

It has specified down to the point MAN will get more marginal city routes, so will be interesting to see what happens.

In a twitter session, they also stated the midlands will eventually get more growth, but I dont think he was specific to EMA or BHX, so some expansion will take place.

[Vuelo]

Is WW really commited to Lisbon? Or, is it time they gave the route over to a quality airline like TAP who could exploit their impressive connections portfolio at LIS?

Often the WW fares on MAN-LIS route are way abouve those of AF, BA. KL, IB, BD/TP etc. and they have totally useless timings for either business or pleasure. I mean, Tuesdays and Saturdays??? Err?? Hello?

[CheekyVisual]

There's nothing to stop TAP operating the route now if they wanted to. Competition is not banned by Manchester airport. They obviously just aren't interested.

[INKJET]

Live Twitter Q&A with Acting Operations Director, Pete Durnford

Live Twitter Q&A with Acting Operations Director, Pete Durnford

bmibaby’s recently appointed Acting Operations Director, Pete Durnford, will be taking part in a live Twitter interview on July 22nd at 3pm. This will be the second in a series of live Twitter Interviews on the @bmibaby_com Twitter feed.

Pete will be taking over the @bmibaby_com Twitter feed for an hour to answer questions on bmibaby flight operations, the bmibaby fleet and offering career advice for any budding pilots out there!

[JonnyBfs]

Summer 2011

Do we have any ideas about when WW are going to release the Summer 2011 remaining flights, such as domestics?

[crewmeal]

Baby ripping off passengers

Seems like baby are ripping off passengers by having 2 different size cages for baggage checks. How low can this outfit get? It's worse than Ryanair.

BBC - Watchdog: bmibaby Baggage Blunder...

Good for the beeb for exposing such a malpractice. I wonder how much they made out of unsuspecting passengers

[Mr A Tis]

Good for WD in exposing these LCCs scams. Baby are not the only one's. One day, the punters will wake up and realise the full fare carriers are significantly less hassle and very often just as cheap.
At the moment I have Baby, Easy & Ryanair on my black list. The truth is, they are IMHO too much hassle to be worth trying to save a few quid on a flight. I know sometimes there is no option on certain routes but to use these guys, but boy, when I have a choice they won't see me for dust.

[ryan2000]

Summer 2011

I wonder will BMI baby go back on ORK MAN given that EI have withdrawn from the route and that Aer Arann look vulnerable. The same could be said of ORK BHX.

[JonnyBfs]

I am just interested in the release date of these domestic flights!! BFS-MAN as I want to book a connection with TCX onto Toronto!

Any idea when available?

[aidoair]

bmibaby summer 2011

bmibaby are expected to release 'phase 2' of their summer 2011 schedule sometime next week. This will include the rest of their UK & Ireland domestic routes that are currently only on sale untill 26th March, as well as Amsterdam, Paris etc.

I've heard various rumours, some directly from bmibaby such as from their inflight magazine and f.book page, of a few new routes to be added too. I'm just wondering has anyone else heard anything of these possible new routes? I know a couple of years back, baby said they were going to increase there presence at MAN to be one of the bigger players there. I know that because of various factors they had to downsize, but I hope some of these new routes can be added to their MAN base again.

[planenut321]

Apparent new routes include:

CWL- IBZ
EMA - IBZ
EMA - VRN

Not sure of any more with apparently 2 extra aircraft being added to the fleet.