These rumours have worried me a bit now...Is it a safe company to join? (Might not even get through the assessment day yet lol, but if i do...)

its over bmed
 

lets face it guys as sad as it is its only a matter of time for bmed bye bye

I agree with this comment, I left BMED only because of thier financial position. Great company, Majority of people are great. Shame about poor performance of routes. And with BMI in pretty much the same situation.. I can't see a buy out on the horizon!

Good Luck to all involved!

Sphere

Anymore news on the situation with BMed, guys?
I am beginning to get worried...:sad:

All the bmi directors are still in London discussing this. Watch this space

And I hear all the managers and CCMs had a meeting today and none of them looked too happy...:ooh: :sad:

Thats a good sign, its normal.

Bishop of Baku, very well observed haha

Just had a call to say the first weekend of BMed interviews have been postponed/cancelled. They didn't say why, does anyone know? I'm really disappointed, but maybe it's meant to be what with all the rumours about BMed recently.

Any truth in the rumour the BMI have bought out BMED? Have just seen reported on the BA forum that the buyout has occurred and the franchise will be disbanded in the next few months.

Where is BMEDLHR when you need him??

fingers crossed
 

I'm keeping my fingers crossed i dont care who buys Bmed as long as people in the company keep there jobs!!!!!! I love working for Bmed! lets hope there will be some good news this week for Bmed!!! come on we need it :ugh:

Hubbly,
give us a link to the exact place in the BA forum, where you read that, please...

Yeah, WEB, me too, me too!
Of course we wanna keep our jobs, but I hope we don't have to fly BMI destinations...
Some of us live abroad - Amsterdam, Spain, Paris... - imagine doing LHR-Manchester-LHR-Manchester-LHR or whatever they do, if you are in that situation.....
The beauty of BMed was that you could live exactly where you want, the trips were not too short and not too long and the check in times - lunch time or evenings... And at the end of a double sector you end up at your destination in a 5* hotel for at least 2 nights, sometimes up to 4 nights(while getting paid), before you have to work again 2 sectors on the way to LHR! Superb!
And all that - with a very good wage!
Eh, good old days.....:sad:

He is no longer at BMED.

so does everyone think this is the reason that maybe the recruitment days have been postponed this weekend? maybe they cant afford to take on as many applicants as they thought...

I would have thought that the recruitment days have been postponed until people know the exact nature of the deal, ie full scale merger of BMED services into BMI or if BMED is kept as a seperate operation.

Although it seems pretty certain that BMI will be the new owners of BMED, the deal has not been done YET!

It seems as though pen will be put to paper tomorrow. Unless any one comes in at the last minute.

As far a BMED's future goes, nobody can possibly know what BMI will decide to do, the franchise with BA can be ended by mutual consent but with a notice period of 18 months.

I believe the cancellation of recruitment days has taken place as it is not really appropriate to continue them in the current climate.

There is a lot of speculation and a lot of rumours however currently things are more uncertain than ever.

But I was told the recruitment days next weekend (10/11 feb) would still be happening, as I was told I might be able to go to one of them. Anyway, doesn't matter much. I guess the company has to sort itself out before employing any new crew.

All BA franchise agreements have an early termination clause in them to cover a potentially unfriendly change of ownership. Whilst no-one can predict what BA will do, they could invoke this and force a change within (I think) a month to disenfranchise BMed. It is effectively treated as a breach of the franchise if there is an unfriendly change (i.e. much faster termination), rather than a termination through normal means which has a longer notice period attached.

Tomorrow, Wed, at 11.30, in Hetherington House is going to be an announcement by BMed's CE to the staff about the situation.
I guess we'll get to know a bit more then...