bmi at Leeds

[682ft AMSL]

Apparantly the airline is looking at increasing frequency on the LBA-LHR service. Provisional timings suggest the use of a LHR based machine to fly an early morning northbound, with the aircraft then "doing something else during the day", before returning down south at 21:00 ish.

Good news if true, after a period of reducing frequency and capacity on the service, but I wonder what the "something else" is that they intend to do with the aircraft during the day.

682

[HOODED]

Obviously not the CPH, thats a new Emb145 route so maybe a lunchtime DUB given no BA on the route anymore. Trouble is they'd be in competition with Ryanair who recently went to 4 times daily Mon and Fri because on MAN charges!

[ajamieson]

Galileo is showing the following operational timetable for a random weekday in May, which would appear to suggest the extra rotation is an Embraer.

TUE 06MAY03 LONDON/LEEDS/BRADFO *BD
1 LHR LBA 0650 0750 BD 422 Y9 ER4 B
2 LHR LBA 0850 0950 BD 412 Y9 100 B
3 LHR LBA 1305 1405 BD 414 Y9 100 B
4 LHR LBA 1725 1825 BD 418 Y9 100 B
5 LHR LBA 2100 2155 BD 420 Y9 100 B

TUE 06MAY03 LEEDS/BRADFO/LONDON *BD
1 LBA LHR 0700 0815 BD 411 Y9 100 B
2 LBA LHR 1050 1200 BD 413 Y9 100 B
3 LBA LHR 1535 1640 BD 417 Y9 100 B
4 LBA LHR 1905 2010 BD 419 Y9 100 B
5 LBA LHR 1955 2100 BD 421 Y9 ER4 B

[pitchtrim]

superseded by above post...

[useless_info]

TUE 06MAY03 LONDON/LEEDS/BRADFO *BD
1 LHR LBA 0650 0750 BD 422 Y9 ER4 B
2 LHR LBA 0850 0950 BD 412 Y9 100 B
3 LHR LBA 1305 1405 BD 414 Y9 100 B
4 LHR LBA 1725 1825 BD 418 Y9 100 B
5 LHR LBA 2100 2155 BD 420 Y9 100 B

TUE 06MAY03 LEEDS/BRADFO/LONDON *BD
1 LBA LHR 0700 0815 BD 411 Y9 100 B
2 LBA LHR 1050 1200 BD 413 Y9 100 B
3 LBA LHR 1535 1640 BD 417 Y9 100 B
4 LBA LHR 1905 2010 BD 419 Y9 100 B
5 LBA LHR 1955 2100 BD 421 Y9 ER4 B

sorry mate but the 100 signifies a fokker 100
no chance of an embryo goin into lhr!! (never say never!!)
so it wont be another lhr rotation!!!!

[AerSligo]

Yes, we all know that 100 signifies an F100!

Sorry "mate," have you not seen the "ER4" listed beside the additional flight in black and white??

The additional rotation also shows when doing an availability search on Amadeus...shame that the extra LBALHR is not later than 1955...but at least there's a very early LHRLBA now!!

[ACE Dispatcher]

BMI are probably trying to soak up some of the LBA-LGW traffic after BACX ceases this route at the end of March.:*