BM have cancelled today’s ABZ-BRS flight.

Today’s ABZ-OSL flight operated by G-RJXG departed just over 2 hours late arriving 1hr 40 mins late in OSL. According to ABZ’s website return flight is currently showing arriving 3 hours late at 17:30. This aircraft was meant to operate the cancelled BRS service.

A delay now likely on the BM2007 departure to BRU from BRS, as this aircraft was meant to operate this flight

An absolute mess and don't know how they continue to operate!!

Please note that due industrial action at Munich planned for tomorrow, all flights operating to/from Munich on Tuesday 10th April are now cancelled as listed below –

BM1841/1842 BRS-MUC-BRS – 30/36
BM1845/1846 BRS-MUC-BRS – 35/38
BM1752/1753 NRK-MUC-NRK – 23/22
BM1754/1757 NRK-MUC-NRK – 14/18
BM1721/1722 MUC-SCN-MUC – 6/16
BM1727/1728 MUC-SCN-MUC – 15/7
BM1711/1712 MUC-RLG-MUC – 27/31
BM1737/1738 MUC-BRQ-MUC – 30/32
BM1733/1734 MUC-BRQ-MUC – 28/13
BM1747/1748 MUC-BGY-MUC – 26/35
BM1741/1742 MUC-BGY-MUC – 14/43
BM1771/1772 MUC-LUZ-MUC – 14/24
BM1715/1625/1626/1716 MUC-RLG-STR-RLG-MUC – 26/14/22/30

Are the figures at the end of the lines the loads?

Looks like they are

Can some kind soul advise when "Kittywake" was dropped in favour of "Midland"? Looking for the changeover date.
It was long after the BD->BM swap on 28-Oct-2012 I think?

Thanks :)

Info below is taken from a daily news email sent by aviator.aero on 17th April.

Does anyone know what aircraft this is?. Also are BM planning to replace the aircraft with another aircraft?.

Flew from Stansted to Stroke City on Tuesday.
In flight service was extremely good - I even tweeted bmi to say that they had great staff.
One of those crew members who takes the time to chat to every customer (with the loading it was possible!). Flight was reasonably quiet in both directions, and inbound no luggage could be carried due to a faulty fire extinguisher in the hold. In fact I think I posted this on the Derry thread... :D

Today's Bristol cancellations - DUS and the evening FRA flight.

At what point do the EU261 payments start to exceed revenues?

I have a 261 claim from mid-March which has had zero response so far. I check in on it every couple of weeks. Come mid-May if it's had no response, it's off to PACT.

Unfortunately the German domestic route Munich - Saarbrücken - Munich is also not doing that well, only 25% loadfactor in February. As far as I know the Codesharing with Lufthansa starts in May, so maybe the loadfactor will increase once they can use several more destinations from Munich.

Looks like G-RJXD but I could be wrong. It went to Lisbon from Bristol on the 17th as BMR9721 and is yet to return. I know that they used to do a lot of ERJ maintenance at Lisbon but I'm not sure if it has carried on since Portugália got rid of their last ERJs. Either way it is either planned maintenance or getting de-branded, only time will tell.

Tonight's evening LDY service not going again. Is XA next on the crock list

XA has kicked the bucket, G-RJXF is operating this morning.

Is there any plans to permanently transfer an ERJ145 over to Loganair for the Inverness base since they have trained their own crews on the aircraft? It would be great to see an ERJ in LM livery.

I never heard they trained ERJ145 crews. Would be great to see! I would love to see either EMBJ/N in a nice livery but that's just my childish dream!

Dont think so
 

Absolutely right, they have claimed this for years now yet no fleet expansion. This is an airline in decline with regards to route network and customer service levels!

1507/8 canx tonight. Hours maybe as morning rotation didn't arrive til teatime?

Hi, there is an article in The Scotsman newspaper re. Transfer of Erj's from BMI to Loganair so latter can start longer European routes.

https://www.scotsman.com/news/transp...-1-4759063/amp

Cheers mate. Surely this will pave the way for more ERJs for the BMR fleet. I know that last summer there was a real shortage of aircraft and CKAF/G seem to have decreased these issues now. Alternatively could these be the first signs of these "Fantasy" E-Jets on the horizon. Either way unless they cut routes or take back some aircraft from the Brussels contract and/or move the INV based ERJ to GLA there will need to be extra airframes brought in.

In the absence of anything ERJ-135/145 sized currently being available, I'd quite like to see BM go for the MRJ 70/90. The E-2 just seems too big for BM, the MRJ is the smallest available!

If only the Dornier 528/728 had been built!

The E170 id probably a good fit for BMI.

The CEO has been quotted saying Second-hand E190/5s or potentially even CRJ900s but I feel the latter is highly unlikely.

From ch-aviation​

bmi regional rebrands as flybmi
https://www.ch-aviation.com/portal/stock/1909.jpg
bmi regional Embraer 135 © Tis Meyer / PlanePics.org

bmi regional has rebranded as flybmi, adjusting the name to the website domain used, the carrier has said in a statement.

The website and booking engine have also been updated and simplified. The carrier's new logo continues to reference the legacy of the bmi brand and has not been designed anew.

The new booking engine has been developed by Germanys' 2e Systems.

bmi regional itself was rebranded from British Midland Commuter in 2001. The carrier was a subsidiary of bmi british midland prior to the acquisition of the airline by British Airways in 2012. Subsequently, BA did not retain ownership of bmi regional and sold it to Sector Aviation Holdings. Nowadays, flybmi is owned by Airline Investments Limited which also controls Loganair.

It's been flybmi for a while now.

does BMI still fly the weekend charter IT flights to verona and corsica from BRS for inghams and corsican places?

Yes the do still do these flights.

BMI weekend charter
 

No they do not operate these mentioned charters anymore.

They do, however, offer a Saturday service to Sardinia (Olbia) on behalf of Neilson Active Holidays.

bmi one of the least punctual UK airlines
 

bmi is one of the UK's least punctual airlines, tying with Thomas Cook for average delay length of 21 minutes. WizzAir was the worst overall (flying to UK airports), with an average of 23 minutes delay.

https://news.sky.com/story/wizz-air-...ports-11462905

I'd be interested to see what bmi's cancellation performance is. Given the frequency that I experience, I have a feeling it's pretty bad.

4 years ago, bmi was the UK's most punctual airline.

https://www.bristolairport.co.uk/abo...3/bmi-regional

I'll be honest - any journalistic report which has Ryanair listed as a UK airline and Eastern Airways listed as an international airline serving the UK ought to be treated with caution.

Given that the average was 15 minutes it would seem that there's not many of them that are any good if 23 mins is the worst!

I've since been that this info is actually incorrect

That's a pity, with another two to go to Loganair the BMI ERJs will be harder to catch. (With any luck it will be G-EMBJ and EMBN that go to Loganair.

ERJ for easyJet Europe? Sounds strange, doesn't it?

Does flybmi reduce their fleet in 2019 or will they get new planes?