Cheers. I understand now.

Anyone know whats happening with the MME route during the summer......amadeus shows 4x daily with the early morning from LHR and late evening back being operated by an ERJ145, meaning that the ERJ is sat at MME from 0730 til 2150 each day. Everything else is A319/320 operated, anyone know what they're thinking/planning :confused:

Well I'm not sure what they'll do with the ERJ, but I think the reason they've extended the 4x daily into the summer is because the open skies agreement between the US and EU is one step closer to completion that previous failed attempts, therefore they might be hanging on in the hope that they'll be able to use the slots to launch LHR-USA routes. Just a theory though.

bmi Regional are launching 6x weekly flights from Leeds Bradford to Lille. The first direct service from the Uk
Appreciate the claim to first UK/Lille service is a quote from the press release but is it actualy correct? IIRC Lesquin was linked to LHR in seventies/eighties.
As to commercial rationale possibly some sort of fast link via the TGV to Paris?.
Seem to be a few connections to French speaking Africa!!!

FlyMe A/C
 

Does anyone know if BmiBaby will actually put a bid in for any o the a/c?

:ok:

The BD330 / BD345 are probably and EMB145 cause at the mo they only ever have 10 or 15 people on board.

The flights exists cause its the old LHR/BOM/LHR solts which they are trying to keep active.

The Futura 734's were planned before the 2 x 752's were dropped. From what I remember, they wanted 3 x 733's to enter the fleet this year. Not sure why that did not happen, so I guess the 2 Futuras and the 146 at NCL are their replacements.

According to another thread, all of the MME/LHR flights will be on JJs. Which means the aircraft won't be sat around @ MME all day.

Forgive my ignorance but what is "JJs"?

JJ = Jungle Jet (Brazilian Jungle = Amazon Jet) = Embraer Jet

No surprises really, although I want to know the plans for the BMED A321s, are they keeping or getting rid? Perhaps it says in the article and I have missed it?

Yip you missed it, which is forgiveable in that fairly long article.BMI are keeping the current aircraft and the aircraft on order are planned to be kept.

Bd at Belfast
 

Is there any truth in the rumour on another forum that Bd are looking at their ops in Belfast? It was stated that
1. Bd may continue at Bhd and increase services to Lhr plus move WW to bhd.
2. Bd to move back to Bfs and expand there.

True Blue

I had heard that bmi were looking at moving all bmi group operations to Belfast City, considering that Jet2 and EasyJet have now sown up BFS and that flybe are competing on many of our services to the more efficient BHD, but these rumours have been around for some time, and considering BHD's more restrictive operations, doubt we'll see any move any time soon. There was also a rumour that the Belfast-Manchester route might be moved to bmi regional from baby.

In a recent article, about Jan 07, in the Belfast Telegraph Business section, Bmibaby chief exec was quoted as saying that WW were looking at expanding services out of Belfast, including new routes and increasing frequency on existing routes He seemed to hint that international routes were s serious contender. Any views?

BTW, if they were considering taking all WW to Bhd, I don't know how they would physically cope.

True Blue

Bookings
 

Anyone know how bookings are going for the new mainline route to Jersey and the new regional routes?

Forward Bookings New Jersey CI Route
 

Well chrism20
When BMI were in Jersey last week for a VIP PRO Mo flight they did a presentation and one of them items was. They are very pleased with the forward bookings higher than expected.
So on that basis looking good route feel fine.:ok:

BMI LHR to USA. place you bets on the routes
 

Well open skies is here so where in the states is BMI likely to fly to I would like to see the following:

LHR/JFK
LHR/MCO
LHR/BOS
LHR/MIA
LHR/MSP

:D

It would be too difficult for me to speculate on where they may go, although I think JFK is a dead cert...in fact, I think a trip to Ladbrokes is in order on that one.

They will have to be very careful indeed though, because a lot of airlines are going to open up new LHR-USA routes and the competition will be fierce, there will be a price war, and it could get very ugly very fast for some of the airlines involved.

What will BMI with a flight each day bring to the market? The front end requires a couple of flights per day at least so I guess MAN-US gets dumoed PDQ.
I reckon it will Mumbai all over again.