Emirates interested in buying British airline bmi

[Count von Altibar]

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/mai...0/cnjet120.xml

[scanscanscan]

Be better news if they were bidding to takeover Britain which is even more of a mess than BMI.

[tbaylx]

YOu mean they were interested in buying all those nice LHR slots that BMI has..doubt anything other than that interested them.

[SOPS]

Am I missing something? The article talks about Jet Airways..not Emirates!

[Wizofoz]

Err...Yeah...It definatley says Jet Airways.

Perhaps it's been che nged in the last few hours???

[tbaylx]

About the second or third paragraph down it mentioned a middle eastern airline widely believed to be Emirates had expressed interest as well.

[L1011]

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