Now that is interesting, does anyone know anymore about this?

By the way, MIDV won't be the first A320 to leave, MIDW went ages ago.

Regards.

Would be a good time to consider relaunching LHR-AGP, with what BA are offering when GT depart.

What's this I hear from a couple of Astraeus pilots that bmi have been sniffing around two of their 757s for wet-lease? Sounds like the Bish was serious then about looking for longer range interim aircraft for some ex-BMED routes.

They will have to get some kind of replacement for all these A320s that are being "retired" :hmm:

If BMI did manage to find some 757's I could imagine they could be deployed on THR and ALA of the old BMED routes, and possibly BEY as well.
Word was a few years ago that BMED and BA were going to do a trade, BMED would have the 757's and BA would take its A321's as a swap. Not sure how much truth there was in that though!!

I hear they're for the Almaty and Freetown routes.

"I hear they're for the Almaty and Freetown routes."

Hello where do you find the above information?

"Hello where do you find the above information?"


With such clarity and depth of certainty to it, my guess is that it came from the cleaners..............................or the caterer:}

If they did lease them they would probably just train their long haul crew. I wouldn't be surprised if Tehran was one of the possible routes.

:ugh::= would,will never happen

worst post i ever saw on this thread



p.s and ive seen some bloody awful 1s:D:{:\:rolleyes:

Why would they just retrain long haul crew?? would it not make sence to train short haul crew so that all crew work on the same amount of aircraft ie:

Long Haul crew being: A319, A320, A321 and A330 (their current fleeting)
Short Haul crew being: A319, A320, A321 and 757

Thats providing they you can fly on the above fleets under possibly 2 different AOCs. (XL LGW crew had issues with being on the XLA AOC and the AAE AOC)

What crew worked on the Arkefly 767?

mutualswap, which part of my post angers you? the use of long haul crew or the mere mention of Tehran?!! Before bmi put the new A330 order on hold, the big man himself told me that he would like to put a bigger aircraft on the Tehran route.

Long haul crew have been trained on all aircraft, even the G-MED types brought over from B|MED.

we know long haul crew are on all the fleet so why give them ANOTHER aircraft to work on??????

Because it saves them having to train all of us!!!!!!

Because the BD fleet/product is messy enough without having passengers having to deal with crews from another airline, in a different uniform, thats why!

Incidentally, the 757s would have to be fitted out with some sort of business class cabin, I assume? I think the current fit in the Astreus/FlyStar fleet is 189Y.

Brian.

AEU B752 currently have 153 down the back 6 abreast, with a separate cabin sold as Star Class with 48 seats at 36" pitch in the forward cabin giving 201 total on board

757
 

this is all speculation but....

Does anyone know the actual ins and outs of bmi crew being able to work on the A319, A320, A321 and A330 under bmi's AOC and also the 757 on AEU AOC??? Can that be done?

Thankyou queenvic with that information it NOW make sense for A330 crew to train on a possible 757 if/when... its all speculation at the moment though.

BMI Baby & Ray Webster
 

I assume the mods won't mind me using a name as it is the thrust
of the Telegraph article (prompt from another forum): -

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/mai...1/cnbmi121.xml

Apologies if it does not open but a copy and paste into the address bar should work.

RW is to help the "loss-making" bmi baby in a consultancy role. Also note the denial that it has anything to do with the sale of BMI as a whole!

I am sure this type of thing goes on in the airline world everyday of the week but anyone care to comment on this?

Is this in readiness for a sell-off or even more direct "make us an offer".

Pete

Well, he hasn't been spotted queuing up at the coffee machine, yet !
I'll ask the cleaners, in the morning. They tend to be more in the know than us Ops/Crewing monkeys !