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Originally Posted by frontcheck
Outstation groundstaff still working as normal. The longer you can hang on , the more money in the bank before the chop! Not easy and very strange atmosphere
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BMI Lounges
Anyone know what the plan is for the BMI lounges, especially the London Lounge and those at Manchester and Edinburgh? I have to say I prefer the BMI lounges at each of those locations.
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it has already been confirmed that the lounge in T1 in heathrow is turning into a BA lounge. dnt know about the rest, i couldnt see them turning to ba lounges unless they are in different terminals in man and edi, but this i dnt know. only my opinion.
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Pure speculation but would not be surprised if BA took on the EDI lounge and cut a deal with the new owners of the airport to share the cost of a revamp by giving up some of the space which would mean the bottleneck at gate 4 could be addressed by moving the kitchen area further back. Result for both BA and GIP
Join Date: Oct 2007
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Further BMI flight Nos being changed to BA prefix
British Airways (BA, London Heathrow (LHR)) has announced that it will transfer bmi british midland (BD, East Midlands (EMA)) routes from London Heathrow (LHR) to Belfast Aldergrove International (BFS), Dublin International (DUB) and Manchester Ringway International (MAN) to its own BA flight numbers from June 27 and routes to Aberdeen Dyce (ABZ), Amman Queen Alia International (AMM), Beirut Rafic Hariri International (BEY) and Edinburgh (EDI) from July 4. The flights will be operated by bmi aircraft and crew and it is expected that all transferred routes will continue to be served following the full integration of bmi into British Airways. Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Manchester are already served by BA from Heathrow as well.
Source: CH-Aviation.
Source: CH-Aviation.
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BA replacing bmi flight nos
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Very possibly a typo, it's a direct copy word for word from the news release, possibly they got confused between Belfast BFS and BHD..
As the saying goes..don't shoot the messenger..
Very possibly a typo, it's a direct copy word for word from the news release, possibly they got confused between Belfast BFS and BHD..
As the saying goes..don't shoot the messenger..
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G-MIDX is at BHX op for LH to FRA. It is large STAR c/s, but has brand new bmi brown leather interior and has had the business class seats removed. Travelled twice last week on it, very smart interior, howeve very troubled crew.....both cabin managers told me that IAG aren't giving them any info, they don't know how long they will continue to op for LH. This must apply to MAN as well, would I be correct to think that G-MIDS is based there now for similar LH ops, this a/c was previously at BHX, not sure what has happened, some threads say it has gone to be painted into BA colours???
A Guide to migrating your bmi Diamond Club Miles to British Airways Avios
Well the tool is live… so it’s time to convert those BMI Diamond Club Destination Miles to British Airways Avios (unless there’s a reason you want Diamond Club miles – eg redemption space on Jet, Qatar, Virgin Atlantic or Transaero).
How to do it:
A Guide to migrating your bmi Diamond Club Miles to British Airways Avios…. - Ghetto IFE
How to do it:
A Guide to migrating your bmi Diamond Club Miles to British Airways Avios…. - Ghetto IFE
Join Date: Nov 2006
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Yes and the conversion to Executive Club took just minutes! Which is great, I can now go further on BA with my avios!
Does anybody know and I cannot get a direct answer from bmi or MBNA on this one... I have bmiAmericanExpress card and I earn diamond club miles on all spending to the rate of 1.5 per £1 spend, (most).
What happens now that all of Diamond Club miles are now AVIOS? MBNA will not link my card to Executive Club, surely the Diamond Club Scheme will be wound up eventually???
I may very well move to BA Card.
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Does anybody know and I cannot get a direct answer from bmi or MBNA on this one... I have bmiAmericanExpress card and I earn diamond club miles on all spending to the rate of 1.5 per £1 spend, (most).
What happens now that all of Diamond Club miles are now AVIOS? MBNA will not link my card to Executive Club, surely the Diamond Club Scheme will be wound up eventually???
I may very well move to BA Card.
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Diamond Club Tier Match
Regretably, this implies that the demise of the Diamond Club is imminent. Doubtless a Star Alliance carrier will make a similar offer(?)
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Unless the new BMI-R takes it on, Diamond Club will be wound down before the year is out. The staff are already being laid off.
AC and I believe TK are both currently offering *A status matches.
AC and I believe TK are both currently offering *A status matches.
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I've already moved my Diamond miles over to Avios, but is there any point keeping the Diamond Club card or account now? I tried contacting BMI and BA about this, but got nowhere.
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anyone know how competitive avios redemption taxes and charges for ba flights are? Just want to know if it's worth collecting them?
BA has also introduced a "reward saver" option for short-haul redemptions where you pay a small flat fee instead of the APD and fuel surcharge and this has made short haul redemptions much better value than in the past.
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I've already moved my Diamond miles over to Avios, but is there any point keeping the Diamond Club card or account now? I tried contacting BMI and BA about this, but got nowhere.
However, if you have a bmi american express card like me, you will continue to accrue diamond club miles on spend on the card, and at the end of the month (or whenever your statement is run and diamond club points awarded) you will have to go into BA.com and use the tool to bring those points over.
There is still absolutely nothing arranged for the bmi credit card, as it is american express (now with a supplementary Visa card on the same account), I figure this is at odds with BA's own Amex card, which is direct from AMEX rather than MBNA with bmi.
I dont know what will happen, but I am guessing that the mbna amex will disappear and BA do a deal with MBNA for a Visa card. That wont be at odds with AMEX arrangement, and allows BA to have new income stream and MBNA to hold onto a bunch of customers. THis is just my speculation, though I am not sure how many on here hold such a card as I had no responses to a post on the same topic.
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Well the tool is live… so it’s time to convert those BMI Diamond Club Destination Miles to British Airways Avios (unless there’s a reason you want Diamond Club miles – eg redemption space on Jet, Qatar, Virgin Atlantic or Transaero).
How to do it:
A Guide to migrating your bmi Diamond Club Miles to British Airways Avios…. - Ghetto IFE
Thanks for the heads up, didn't realise that you could move points over. Just managed to add another 50% to my Avios account!
How to do it:
A Guide to migrating your bmi Diamond Club Miles to British Airways Avios…. - Ghetto IFE
Thanks for the heads up, didn't realise that you could move points over. Just managed to add another 50% to my Avios account!
Last edited by ballyctid; 14th Jul 2012 at 07:18.