BMI

[jdcg]

So who'll take the slots?

Moscow - VS or SU or S7??
Cairo - VS or MS
Riyadh - VS or SV
Nice - AF
Edinburgh - BE (with VS codeshare)??
Aberdeen - BE(with VS codeshare)??

[lamina]

I would not be surprised to see a company called Granite suddenly get funding for the Scottish routes.

[BHD2BFS]

surely aer lingus will take some slot for BFS and DUB i really cant see BA flying own aircraft to these airports

[Skipness One Echo]

Air France have no interest in LHR beyond CDG, eveything else was dropped or went to CityJet from LCY.
Virgin may look at Moscow and Cairo.
Granite have enough bother raising enough cash as is without a gauranteed loss making LHR operation. I mean exactly who would they be feeding? Feeding STAR was what cost BMI.

Flybe are a regional specialist, I don't see them going head to head with BA.

[le grand fromage]

Here's the link to the IAG press release
IAG - International Airlines Group - News Release

[Kittiwake]

Interestingly no mention of regional in the cost reduction paragraph. Actually no mention of regional at all......

[Mallorcaguy]

I'm not sure if anyone will know the answer yet but what happens to BMI flights already purchased for July.
We have MAN - LHR booked with BMI for early July with returns in August as part of our holiday, will they still be honored by BMI or transfered to BA. We only booked with BMI because the fares were half the price of BA when we booked.

Thank for any advice.

[SKYHOOK]

bmi summer schedule is planned to operate as normal. Should be no problem, but I would think BA would honour your tickets if the bmi flights were cancelled.

[Merchant Banker]

Phone customer services they will put you right.

There will be few toasting this tonight in mainline and I raise a glass to you too!

But the afterbirth aka baby/ regional will no doubt have more prolonged agony to endure whilst we are tossed to anyone whole will take us?

[CabinCrewe]

"Feeding STAR was what cost BMI"
...and you know that..how ? Without Star they would have gone a lot sooner

[ara01jbb]

...and you know that..how ? Without Star they would have gone a lot sooner

But with Star, routes such as LHR-GLA were packed out with passengers transferring to/from other non-BD routes (including AC, CO, UA, TK, NZ and VS). These contributed virtually nothing to the bottom line.

[Grotehaasje]

It had nothing to do with Star.

Try poor management.

No

Try really poor management.

[frontcheck]

Agree with the above. Having so many codeshares meant BD did all the work for the onto carrier whilst getting little revenue. On the way back they had to sort out , pay for and arrange any lost baggage then have to claim the money back.The major problem with codeshare is when ticketed on another carriers stock, BD do not get the revenue until after the passenger has travelled.

[queenvic]

As c/c for midland, I am very grateful to have a job.

Any ideas what plans IAG/BA have for us? Any ideas on fleeting?
Heard they are short of crew on WW at the moment and not many volunteers for eurofleet... Any chance of some the 330 crew being put on WW?

[davidjohnson6]

When Stelios started Easyjet, he tried to get hold of some Heathrow slots, was denied, and resorted to Luton instead. For many years, Easyjet had a perpetual message about no frills.
Easyjet is now trying to become and be seen as a business friendly airline and the focus is no longer purely on no frills.

Over the last 2 years, there was sufficient noise about them starting flights at Frankfurt, that Lufthansa felt the need to open a Gatwick-Frankfurt route just to signal to Easyjet that they should back off.

Easyjet already have substantial operations at Paris CDG, Amsterdam, Madrid, Malpensa, Munich, etc...

If IAG now have to give up some slots for Edinburgh / Aberdeen / Nice / Moscow / Cairo (with grandfather rights after 2 years), what are the odds that Easyjet apply to start flying point-to-point at Heathrow ?

[Skipness One Echo]

German Wings have joined Vueling at LHR recently. Imagine easyJet offering GLA-LTN/STN/LGW/LHR with SEN asking to join!

[ayebmi]

Queenvic,

I very much doubt that BA will make any distinction between bmi 330 and non 330 crew, especially as they don't have 330's in their fleet and I doubt they plan to keep them long term, even less likely as both birds are due heavy maintenance soon and will require a leased aircraft to allow each of them downtime in turn. The BA intranet mentions several times a "combined BA/bmi short and midhaul network" so suppose we'll just have to play the waiting game and firstly hope that we all have jobs to start with

[martin102]

I see from the papers this morning that 7 of the slots to be given up are specifically for Edinburgh and Aberdeen. What happens if nobody takes up the slots?

[CabinCrewe]

These provisos were made to quiten the likes of SRB. If he doesn't take them up on it they'll go back to BA for general use. The time span hasnt been released. Seems more than reasonable. Doubt anyone will want the likes of EDI-LHR.

[mcdhu]

Any info about what might happen to Stockley Park and the sims currently therein operated by OAA?

mcdhu