View Full Version : Emirates interested in buying British airline bmi
Count von Altibar
20th Jan 2008, 19:01
An article in todays Daily Telegraph in the UK says that Emirates have been testing the waters about a potential purchase of the London Heathrow operator bmi.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/01/20/cnjet120.xml
scanscanscan
20th Jan 2008, 21:55
Be better news if they were bidding to takeover Britain which is even more of a mess than BMI.
tbaylx
20th Jan 2008, 22:17
YOu mean they were interested in buying all those nice LHR slots that BMI has..doubt anything other than that interested them.
Am I missing something? The article talks about Jet Airways..not Emirates!
Wizofoz
21st Jan 2008, 02:54
Err...Yeah...It definatley says Jet Airways.
Perhaps it's been che nged in the last few hours???:confused:
tbaylx
21st Jan 2008, 09:45
About the second or third paragraph down it mentioned a middle eastern airline widely believed to be Emirates had expressed interest as well.
L1011
22nd Jan 2008, 04:09
EK would outbid Jet just to prevent them from gaining a key strategic foothold.
Imagine it- flights from a dozen Indian cities to LHR going on to a dozen US and Canadian destinations. It will gut EK's traffic to both the UK and NA.
On the other hand, Jet will have to base crews in LHR - now that's a thought! Plus your tax paid in India so no money to the UK taxman:ok: