Let's hope your vectoring is more accurate than your rumour-mongering :cool:

a**e

Gulf carrier Etihad circles BMI

Senior sources in the Gulf say Etihad, the national carrier of the United Arab Emirates, has approached both BMI and Lufthansa, the German airline that holds a stake in BMI

Gulf carrier Etihad circles BMI
 

Gulf carrier Etihad circles BMI - Times Online

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Good old fashioned press speculation methinks. Maybe they want to join Star Alliance!

Maybe not such a bad thing as long as Sir MB keeps his promise of any take over being in the interrest of bmi staff first.

Shall we just make a list of ever major world airline. Then at least one will be right when the time comes. I do laugh when I see that another airline has gone public to say that they want bmi.

Well so far LH, BA, VS, now Etihad. Oh and DHL. Anyone else got any more then can add.

EI were, apparently, looking at acquiring BD if open Skies did not go through.

Lufthansa have first dibs on bmi anyway.

Lets have Eastern Airways putting in a bid....or, maybe, Palmair fancy throwing their hat into the ring....:ugh:

I hardly think EI are in any position for takeovers right now.

http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/3...t-how-bad.html

...and call it Manchester City Airways! That would p*ss on United's fireworks!;)

bmi keeping promises? bmi doing anything that puts staff interests first? This I have to see...

remembering that Etihad would have to ensure bmi has at least a 51% EU shareolding of course otherwise they are in trouble! so a partical merger and leaving LH with some of the shares would work....and mean Etihad might join star alliance...

oh look, fancy that, you've posted yet another slant on the same story today, is that four or five times so far?

Why not just add it to the thread for the respective airline instead of more verbiage.

Etihad could by SAS's share as they want shot of it!

If SAS want shot of their BMI stake then anything could be up for grabs - maybe Etihad are interested???

In our local evening telegraph I read that a "Middle Eastern Airline" is looking at buying a share of bmi"

EY most likely!!

http://www.pprune.org/airlines-airpo...rcles-bmi.html

Topic about it running there

Guys,

I am a pretty regular traveller so my obervations below are based on personal experience and ACARS logs.

My question to anyone who may be in the know is, does BMI have any sort of consistant fleet utilisation policy on the route LHR/BHD?

I ask because both last Friday and yesterday when travelling on the BD96 the aircraft (A319's CJ & CH) were all one class seating with no cabin divide or jacket hanging space for business passengers.

At the same time A320's DO, DY and DT were at Heathrow and were used on other domestic routes. Yesterday evening DY went to ABZ and DO/DT/DY are regulars on the Manchester run. ABZ and MAN are all economy services whereas BHD as sold as 2 class. I therefore wonder why BMI can find it acceptible to send Mid-haul config aircraft (with 49" business seats) on single class internal flights when at the same time 2 class internal flights are being served with single class aircraft. Belfast business class customers are getting a raw deal from BMI.

If they don't stop with this nonsense I can see a lot more of their customers moving to the green machine, especially if they are able to introduce an early morning flight.

Steve

Because bmi are only interested in operating the short haul flights to keep the slots. They are not worried about loosing passengers as they dont really make money on short haul. All that matters is that it all looks good on paper.