Obvious choice would be double daily to AMM and TLV on 321, and direct Jeddah on the 330!! Use 3 loss making slot pairs! Negates using a barbie jet on shorthaul for slot filling purposes and would mean we were less overcrewed. Everone wins in the short term!

Bmi Brs?
 

Is there any news or rumors about BMI starting up from BRS? Any idea what routes they would operate?

rampboy767,,, there has been talk of bmir opening at SOU and BRS plus others but its never come to nowt. Unless you have seen requests for slots at BRS then its probably just hot air.

JB

Not heard anything as such, but one would assume that it would make some good sense to use BMIR jungle jets to do stuff like the BRS-FRA...and maybe add BRS-MUC?? Get a higher frequency for better connections and, onw would assume, with locally based crew, a lower cost than nightstopping LH crews to get decent early morning departures ex-UK.

I just wonder whether a similar tactic might be used by BMI/LH at the likes of LBA etc to attempt to switch interlining traffic into LH hubs in germany and make up for loss of connections at LHR...assuming they'd pull the UK-LHR domestics post takeover...?

Charters, being doing them on and off for years.

I was really board the other night halfway across the pond so was thumbing through the aircraft library.
The following sheet was seen in the approvals folder

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Temporary MNPS approval for the following airframes is granted on VS/VIR AOC.
Full approval to follow pending processing of CA4040.

MSN 1690
MSN 1711
MSN 2190
MSN 2653
MSN 2799
MSN 3081

Effective 1/12/08.

Bish..........you old stirrer!!!!!:ok:

The con nos relate to :

G-MEDF
G-MEDG
G-MEDJ
G-MEDL
G-MEDM
G-EUXJ

ie the BMED Airbus fleet and a BA A321 ! What's the Virgin connection or is it a wind up?

Hang on he's forgotten the other mid haul aircraft GMEDN, GMIDO, GMIDT and GMIDY. Nice try Bish but those MED aircraft are just the original BMED batch!!!

Nice wind-up!

TBE.

Skipness, you have managed to get 8 aircraft from 6 msn’s

Ill take a guess and say the G-MID… 321s don’t have ACT . No use to us.

Yes it is curious that MEDN, the only 321 in bmi colours is not coming over.

What a load of bo***X!

Just a SLF here, but I got a question on how the crews do the LHR-ALA-FRU run. Do they overnight in FRU and then back to LHR or overnight in ALA then do the FRU run, overnight in ALA and back to LHR?:ugh: Thanks.

crews ops LHR/ALA/FRU
2days downroute in FRU then FRU/ALA/LHR

Thats rubbish too!

4 daily New Yorks beginning in June, although probably Lufty aircraft to start with.

Thats what I call a rumour!

A330 now showing in avbly for LHR-CAI also with a prem ecy cabin and PE fares avbl to book
Still not showing in avblty for LHRAMM and neither are PE fares for the route!!!
RUMOUR ctrl says its going on the LHR-DME route (we shall see)

Gawd ... it can only get better

Shame BMI management had to lie about the reasons for pulling the Manchester routes.

Flew them for 7 years and only now they dont make money???

Nothing to do with them hedging their fuel at very high prices?

Never mind ooop North monkeys dont do much long haul at the pointy end of the plane, all too stupid and poor.

The US/Caribbean leisure routes have never made money, and market saturation caused ORD to go, nothing to do with northerners! When you see what money can be made going to CAI and AMM from LHR, our main base, it makes perfect sense. bmi is a business and it has to survive like the rest, and flying to the US from MAN is not going to help when it makes a loss.

Did hear that VS will take the A330s and base them at LGW for the 'beach fleet' from MAR 09... Astreaus will cover the A330 work (whats left)...