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BMI to DME

Good luck to all the bmi crew.
This route is vile on the airbus. The russians bring on loads and loads of handbaggage drink the bars dry then all stand in the aisles waiting for the loo as they have all drunk so much.

Nice to hear the the seat pitch will be increased to offer a proper biz service product.

Is it going to be a fixed config or a convertable one. as BA often go with over 100 in club ?

I understand that it will be fixed config on a dedicated aircraft and will offer the same service as the long haul - including IFE.:)

HWB

I think this will be the most positive thing midland has done in many years and I wish them all the best they can print money on this route.
I just hope that like so many previous routes they just don't drop it after six months.

As said before good luck bmi.

Suprise suprise a positive midland/bmi post

Good luck BMI, I have slated the company for a long time but this is a move in the right direction.

BA move over.

Will bmi use an existing aircraft for this new service or are new aircraft on order?

Two more A319s have been ordered to bring the total to 11. however I believe a specially configured A320 will operate the route as well as Transaero equipment, not sure if that has already been mentioned or not, didn't read all the replies. Apologies if it has.

Good luck to them.

Anyone able to confirm the acquisition of an additional 3 B733's for bmiBaby?

jethro
UK and Ireland Airline Fleet Listings
http://www.jethros.i12.com

Weren't the 735s supposed to be replaced by additional 733's?

Also, one of those 733s will hopefully become the third based aircraft at Durham Tees Valley! :D

bmibaby will have 3 additional 733 aircraft for next summer, no 500's will be departing at present, bases and routes not diecided yet.........

bmi A321 frenzy
 

Does anyone know the actual reason why bmi are giving up their Airbus A321 aircraft? This has led to bmi staff at airports ,very much BHD, becoming extremely frazzled as they are having to tell unhappy passengers that their flights are overbooked and that they aren't able to travel (the route to Heathrow has been replaced by 319's/320's). Staff are complaining to the management and bmi have said it is happening all over the network where the 321 has ceased operations :ugh:

bmi A321 frenzy
 

How about falling passenger numbers? Pax numbers to LHR have been falling almost since the route moved from BFS to BHD, according to the stats on the Caa site. Just 55k pax in June and 52K in Jan and Feb. The charges alone out of BHD are more than I have paid on Easy for fare and charges. With the Easy increase to LGW to 5 daily, LGW will soon be the main route out of N Ireland. At the moment it has only about 7K less per month than the numbers to LHR. And to think before the move to BHD and the withdrawal of BA, BFS to LHR was a route carrying at times 110k per month. I wonder if BMI ever regret moving to BHD? They certainly have lost my business and I travel frequently.

True Blue

I wonder if the pax numbers on their LHR-DUB route have also been falling? It's just A320's and A319's in DUB now, but at least we have 14 times daily EI to LHR!

LHR-NCE dropped
 

BMI have droppped the daily LHR-NCE service from their winter timetable - passengers will be rebooked onto BA. It would appear that the route may well start again with the summer timetable.

Source: BMI trade website

Returned to lessor at end of lease.

Lucifer

But with respect, that's like the excuse for a delayed departure, "due to the late arrival of the operating aircraft." Yes, it's true, as far as it goes, but it doesn't really provide much enlightenment.
bmi could have chosen to sign new leases and keep the aircraft (most lessors would be happy to leave their aircraft with the existing operator rather than incur redelivery costs and downtime). Clearly they chose not to do so, and to return the aircraft at the end of their leases instead - because they felt the A321 was too big for most of their operations, because the lease rates they were being quoted were out of line, who knows?

Complete change of topic within the remit of BMI; why are they not painting their A321's in the new livery?

havent you been reading the posts? Errrr...cos the lease on the A321's is up and they are giving them up! Why bother painting them?:ugh:

"havent you been reading the posts?" No.

I didn't realise realise their 321's were leased. Thanks for the info, although the sarcastic tone was not necessary.

eP

There has been a reduction in A321's ..
 

due to disposals, but the situation is exacerbated by a sizeable summer charter program. This involves changes to equipment on many routes, more so at weekends.

FPC ;)

Some of BMI's leased 321s are going to Monarch.:ok: