BOH will be A320 probably posn from STN

A330 :O

The 330's will be on their way to CAI, TLV and RUH.
STN charter comes in from DUB or EDI.

If anyone can PM me with the contact details (email etc) of the BMi Planning/Navigation Department, that would be most helpful.

All will be explained in the PM.

Any further rumours or news from with the bmi group now that the new owners are in at Toad Hall? :confused:

LH has had someone on the board for over 10 years now.
Correct

Within that time they've had the ability to veto any fleet expansion plans.
Wrong. With 50% plus 1 share, SMB had the only veto and did exactly as he wanted.

The current masters had NO IDEA that SMB was starting up Baby until 8 January 2002 when the primary IT supplier was summoned to The Hall to a) make the airline bookable within the week and b) have it up and running in March.
In fact, no-one in the bmi organisation was aware of the plans until 2 January.

One of many true stories.

You have no idea.....

RevMan2
 

LH has had someone on the board for over 10 years now.


I have to echo your sentiments. If LH had no idea about something as major as 'baby', what other surprises will they unearth now that they own the airline?

I wonder how many bmi 'old timers' will be as surprised to realize that LH were in the dark about many things.

Anyone know when G-MEDU is arriving and why the delivery has been so delayed?

per "Jethro's":

Dlvry deferred 0ne month. A/C to appear at Paris Air Show as DAZAB. Now due Jul 09

And then the day before the engineers were due to go and collect it, told delivery was postponed.

Baby Future?
 

If LH not interested, what are the likely options?

Close down. Can't see why any other airline would buy the business when they could simply move onto their routes.

TSR2
 

Close down?

Why close down a business that you've just bought, that's trading ahead of the budget that you (LH) agreed and is cash positive?

I do agree that other than Jet2 or SMB i can't see anyone else buying it, as for just moving in on the routes, not that easy, baby seems to have a strong loyal customer base and have not walked away from any main routes despite the best efforts of Ryanair & Easyjet

The new board includes a return of Jorg Hennemann a long time LH director with previous in network planning and development of low cost markets.

Given BA's views on the 4-5 year recovery time for business traffic i suspect that there are a few in BA that reflect on whether it was that smart an idea to sell GO (looking back)

baby is already selling S10 and has been linked to tour operators programs for S10 so i guess it will be around for a little longer yet

Time will tell

Good luck to them. Nice outfit, hard-working. They deserve to survive.

SAS319 > sauce> red or brown?:hmm:

IF VS was to take BD off of LH's hands then I think it will be a good thing.

Not simply because the two will fit together very well but I hope, as in the US, they would make some drastic changes to BD's on board service. I'm sure they wouldn't go for the LCC look like their companies down under and I think the perfect way for them to up stage any short haul carrier at Heathrow is to adapt the same/similar cabin to VX, which I must say, is THE best short haul product EVER!:} I would assume they would be making changes to the fleet - after all, it's not like SRB likes anything from any other company associated with the Virgin brand.

Another bonus is the instant expansion of the Virgin airline network within Europe, N. Africa and Middle East. VS giving BD a makeover might just ruffle the feathers of BA enough for them to make some even more drastic changes and of course there would be a resuction in fares on competing routes.

And for that final reason alone - I am all for it!:ok:

Ref VS.
 

Thanks but no thanks.
Out of the pot into the frying pan.

SAS319

Can't find that news in the public domain - could you post a link please? Mrs ETOPS works for Baby so I'm interested in how this might impact her job.

Here is one link to the story
European carriers slip, Lufthansa, Air France-KLM, Aer Lingus and British Airways all down | Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation