I take it the GLA flights to Venice operate via Newcastle again?

GLA
 

Correct Gla Prog :

Rmi- Er4
Szg- A319
Dlm- A320
Gro- A319
Vce- A319 Via Ncl

All Weekly Except Rmi Which Is Fortnightly.

Also
Pfo -a320 October 2 Flights
Canaries Various Dates Oct A321

ABZ
 

BMI Charters summer 08

Alicante
Faro
Ibiza
Palma
Reus

Stu...:D

LGW anyone??

BMI Baby ?
 

Have just been told there is a strong rumour going around today that Baby are about to go bust or wind down the operation altogether because it's not making any money any more. Does anyone know if there is any truth to this? I know they have reduced the fleet size this winter and with the Ryans and Orange mob now taking on Brum I guess things were always going to be tough.

Heard only yesterday that BABY were about to put tender out for ground handling at their UK airports, as bmi were hiving the handling off...

bmi currently handle themselves, BABY and Regional at stations all 3 fly in out of...

Baby have recently conducted a review of their services to decide the future. Is it leisure the way Jet 2 have/are moving away from city destinations or?

Tey won't go "bust" Any accountant can tell you why but they could be sold off or acquire someone to make economies of scale.

The new Bmi/Bmed is one thing and as the parent group will go in this direction the demands of baby detract from the new goal.

Good management at Baby. Will they re-integrate into regional...

Wait for the news......if there is any

Ha what a load of rubbish, at worst it'l be a takeover.

Maybe BMR could use the 737's (and crews) to gain capacity until flybe give up those EMB145's?

As far that the reduction of the fleet goes...this was due to a number of 500's leases comes to an end and the lending company wanted the same price as for -300's so Baby didnt renew with them. Since then Baby have found -300's to replace those aircraft so they havent downsized the fleet for any other reason like going bust. As for ticket sales they have recently had RECORD bookings mounting way higher than ever before added to that new routes which are doing very well etc etc etc.
With the EZY and Ryanair moving into birmingham, The only thing EZY are doing is flying into BHX from GVA and thats it and out of all the routes ryanair will be doing out of birmingham only 2 or 3 collide with baby's out of the 25 routes they have.
So going bust....i doubt VERY much.

Hope this isn't true, they operate an excellent service out of cwl. If they went i think Cardiff would be out of business! They make up 60% of traffic. :hmm:

Thats good to know it would be a shame if they did go down the pan I quite like the brand, flew with them a couple of times positioning and thought they were quite good.

as a temp summer base........ I wouldnt say no;)

Baby
 

The only reason why any bmi group company goes bust is for tax reasons! You should know that by now.

I can assure you that you have this very much incorrect! Incredible really as it was only a few days ago Baby were rumoured to be buying FGS:ugh:

bmi sold off its british midland handling operation 8 years ago

bmi only operates check in at LHR MAN GLA EDI all ramp handling is Aviance

Baby operates checkin only at EMA with menzies doing ramp
at bhx & cwl baby is totaly handled by aviance

At all UK stations aviance is contracted to handle bmi group operations.

The aviance contract is shortly due for renewal/tender.

Although bmi use aviance at the outstations for ground handling, I'm sure they still use bmi dispatchers... they did at Christmas anyway.

randomair

Utter Rubbish
Strange that this rumour has just come out when the board have just given a presentation to confirm their commitment to baby.
Expected growth to 40 a/c in the future

bmi also handle check-in, baggage services, ticket desk, dispatch etc at BHD !!

I have to say there is major contradiction to those that created this post than from the main players at BmiBaby.

If BmiBaby were going bust then would they announce new routes as of the end of last week?

Would they have sent the following statement regarding basing more a/c and being commited to their CWL base?

Those that know what this meeting is at BMI but keeping it close to their chest will probably know the truth, and judging to one of their statement it must be spectacular as he wondered how they pulled this one off.

Hopefully this announcement will not just improve Bmi and Baby but increase their a/c too.