Maybe another name change will sort it out. How about "Newcastle York Dick Wittington International Airport" and charge to the people who have been operating there for years - like before!

Operated the LHR-DUB route in the last few days and the flights were all A321 and pretty much full to capacity, lowest figue was about 130ish

so whats the latest big announcement for tommorrow,any truth in this ,all managers back at the hall for a monday announcement?

maybe its that the airline will be cutting routes? and fleet?

or expanding long-haul?

or selling baby? or integrating 'regional'

or merging with virgin

or adopting a low-cost culture across the entire fleet?

WHO CARES - ITS BMI FOR GOODNESS SAKE NOT THE HOLY GRAIL. WHAT POSSIBLE ANNOUNCEMENT WILL BE MET WITH EXCITEMENT AND ANTICIPATION????

SIR MICHAEL STANDING DOWN PERHAPS AND TAKING A LARGE PAYMENT?

The 4000 staff for a start, what an ignorant post.

Bhd-lhr
 

Will It go?:confused:

So as I gather from the above threads there is to be a bmi announcement either today or tomorrow?

Anybody got any idea's with regard to what this announcement is likely to be? Will it finally be some good news from bmi? As reported on another forum, they've announced today an increase in frequencies on the MAN - ABZ and MAN - GLA routes, so hopefully there will be more good news to follow. Without meaning to capitalise on MME's misfortune, it will surely be good news for the other bmibaby bases as they should capitalise on the deployed aircraft and also the 2 new additions to the fleet for next summer. Let's hope for something imaginative from WW in terms of new routes, across all four of its existing bases. And before anyone laughs off that comment, just have a think as to how many other airlines offer the likes of BOD and PGF from the UK. Not so many! They've pulled it out of the bag before, here's to hoping they can do it again.

Where did you here there would be an announcement. Am I visiting this forum every 30 minutes for no reason, or will there actually be one:confused: If it's just reminding us the increase in Manchester to Scotland routes then I wouldn't really call it a big announcement.

still no announcement?:bored:

They might have just informed the top guys yesterday, today might be the public announcement.

Looks like the announcement is flat beds in the business on the A330s and the return of an A330 to KSA operations. About time with the flat beds, at last a sensible decision for Donington Hall!

Flat beds...
 

The Press release on flybmi.com for the 19th September 2006, is regarding istallation of flat beds on the A330....BHDflyer looks like the LHR-BHD route is safe for now...don't know how BD could even think about pulling off/reducing frequency as it's Ulster's link to LHR and thus the world...

Dunno...they have done it before.......

Continental via EWR and EZY via AMS/LGW might just have put a tiny hole in that balloon...

Doubt very much that it will go (at the moment)

An interesting point to note however, which has since gone on the back burner (ever since the rather sudden and embaressing removal of BHD-BHX by BA....after how many months??????) was that BA Connect were to serve BHD-LCY Daily 4 times per day. ;)

Then with the bad publicity from the BHD-BHX etc things have been put on hold.

But this I will say......with a complimentary hot breakfast etc (BA Connects catering from LCY and vice versa is complimentary) I would imagine that BMI would be hit quite badly. It will be interesting to see if this route is pushed to the forefront again in the coming months.

So where will the KSA A330 come from? MAN?

LHR-BHD route will not cease operations within the next 12 months. They may alter the capacity on the route, but not much more than that.

pax loads
 

message from the cc`s recent meeting at DH with SMDB is that the forward bookings have dropped off the edge of a cliff and things are not looking brilliant - thought to be a combination of security / LHR and imminent pilot strike - can anyone remember the last time they operated in Normal flow?
Have a look at the CAA website for pax figures on routes that bmi have a monopoly on (LHR-BHD and LHR-MME and LHR-LBA ) and compare the present - past figures, they are all down.

Wow under the 'notes to editors' part of the bmi press realease it says "All other long haul routes offer three cabins – the business (18 lie-flat beds from June 2007), premium economy (30 beds) and economy (172 beds"

Thats 220 beds on the bmi 330 wow. How do they do it ?????

flight cancellation on bmi
 

It appears from 30/10 - 8/11 BMI will be reducing its flights to BOM, JED, RUH to the 767 going for its c-check.

Acoording to their website over this period flight will run

LHR - BOM on 29/10, 2/11, 3/11, 6/11 and 9/11
LHR - JED on 31/10, 5/11, 7/11 and 12/11
LHR - RUH on 30/10, 1/11, 4/11 and 8/11

All returning flights arrive back at LHR the following day