Is the Embraer-135 aircraft economical to run? It must surely have an astronomical cost per seat compared to ATR-72/Q400 given that it seems to weigh the same (MTOW) but has half the passenger capacity.

Operating costs will be higher but capital costs will be significantly lower :ok:

The ATR 72 will need two cabin crew members, vs 1 on the Embraer 135.
The Embraers are also quite a bit faster too, and start to become more cost effective the longer the flight is. LDY-STN probably isnt long enough to start seeing the benefits though, but as mentioned, the cost of ownership probably helps.

bmi stops RLG-STR (Rostock - Stuttgart) due to "brexit" from beginning of January. Shortly they already reduced from 7/7 to 3/7. It is also not sure if they will fly the MUC-RLG route.

Hahaha! What a load of rubbish. I note they don't mention the 19% domestic VAT levied by the German government on every ticket or the fact that Stuttgart are due to jack up their charges from next April.....brexit my arse....if that's the case then I assume it's only a matter of time before bmi pull all their intra-european ops then? Utter garbage.

Why hasn't another ERJ (G-RJXF - I think) transferred to Loganair yet? Wasn't it mean't to be transferred in November?

Taking into account that Loganair and flybmi are in the same group, does it follow that we might see flybmi also taking on some ATR-42's?

What for? (not trying to be smart, just wondering: given bmi's longer average sector lengths than Loganair, what bmi sectors would the ATR42 be suited for? Even if there were one or two, wouldn't it make more sense to sublease Loganair aircraft rather than duplicating the support overhead?)

I heard somewhere they were looking at an Austrian AOC but obviously nothing has came to light as of yet.

Flybmi upping LDY-STN-LDY to 3 x Daily for next few days to give extra seats over Christmas period.

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It looks like the Airbus staff shuttle is back with bmi. I hope they're not going to overstretch their fleet.

How is BM dealing with transferring the two ERJs to LM, are they reducing schedules or is there just less redundancy for AC going tech?

Surely this should have been sorted months ago?

Well that started well, the evening rotation tonight was cancelled. Sigh etc.

Edit - The 17.30 LDY - STN with G-RJXC was cancelled but they've relocated G-RJXB to get the evening STN passengers home to LDY.

New route: 1x daily service from Munich to Leeds/Bradford just been announced starting in April 2019.

I know, something must be up if we haven't heard anything more.

Interesting - I wonder which of the existing MUC routes this is going to replace.

bmi used to fly out of LBA, but I thought they only operated domestic flights.