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| Status | Scheduled | ||||||||||||
| Base | East Midlands | ||||||||||||
| IATA Code | BD | ||||||||||||
| ICAO Code | BMA | ||||||||||||
| Website | www.flybmi.com | ||||||||||||
| Country | United Kingdom | ||||||||||||
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24.01.2010 - bmi british midland (BD/East Midlands) will remain a Lufthansa (LH/Frankfurt Intl) subsidiary for the foreseeable future. Lufthansa has put an end to all of the sale speculations by officially announcing that it has no intention to sell bmi. It has however announced a restructuring plan that will see bmi returning two of its three A330-200s and three A320-200s and two A321-200s to the lessors during 2010 as well as cutting up to 600 jobs and more routes. Business Class service has been dropped on all domestic services and flights to Dublin as of January 24. bmi has already given up its routes from London Heathrow to Aleppo, Kiev Borispol and Tel Aviv Ben Gurion on January 10. It has also transferred the London Heathrow-Brussels Ntl route to sister carrier Brussels Airlines (SN/Brussels Ntl) on the same day and will terminate its London Heathrow-Amsterdam services on March 27. It will replace the Amsterdam route with a new twice daily A320-200 service linking London Heathrow and Vienna that will be launched on March 28. bmi has signed a new codeshare agreement with Aegean Airlines (A3/Athens) covering the London Heathrow-Athens route operated by Aegean Airlines and connections via both hubs operated by the two carriers. It also has renewed and negotiated similar deals with both Air Canada (AC/Montreal Trudeau) and Continental Airlines (CO/Houston Intcl) for UK-US and UK-Canada services operated by its two North American Star Alliance partners. In addition, it is now codesharing on the two daily Malaysia Airlines (MH/Kuala Lumpur Intl) B747-400 services between London Heathrow and Kuala Lumpur Intl. 24.01.2010 - British Airways (BA/London Heathrow) and Iberia (IB/Madrid) will merge and operate as separate carriers under a single holding company that will see BA shareholders controlling 55% and Iberia shareholders 45% of the joint company. The transaction is scheduled to be closed in the first quarter of this year and finalized before the end of the year. British Airways has announced plans to lay off up to 1200 employees as part of a restructuring plan with a goal to become profitable again in 2010. BA, Iberia and American Airlines (AA/Dallas/Fort Worth) are still facing hurdles in getting anti-trust immunity for their proposed transatlantic joint venture as part of oneworld alliance and are likely going to be asked to give up at airport slots at key airports in return for getting approval by the European Commission. BA has announced new routes out of London City: London City-Ibiza: 3x weekly ARJ-85/EMB-170 service starting on May 21 (operated by BA Cityflyer (CJ/London City)) London City-Palma de Mallorca: 4x weekly seasonal EMB-170/EMB-190 service starting on May 21 (operated by BA Cityflyer) British Airways will terminate its codeshare agreement with bmi british midland (BD/East Midlands) on March 27. It had agreed to continue to codeshare on former BMed services operated by bmi to the Africa, Central Asia and the Middle East for three years as part of a deal that was concluded when bmi has taken over BMed, at the time a British Airways franchisee, back in 2007. 24.01.2010 - Brussels Airlines (SN/Brussels) will add a fifth ex-Malaysia Airlines (MH/Kuala Lumpur Intl) A330-300 to its fleet this summer and is also considering leasing a fifth A319-100. It has launched four times daily Brussels Ntl-London Heathrow service on January 11 replacing its own London Gatwick route and services on the same route previously operated by sister carrier bmi british midland (BD/East Midlands). It has wet-leased two ERJ-145s from bmi regional (BD/Aberdeen) for its routes from Brussels to Bristol and Newcastle. Brussels Airlines has started codesharing with Star Alliance partners Adria Airways (JP/Ljubljana), EgyptAir (MS/Cairo), Spanair (JK/Palma de Mallorca) and TAP Portugal (TP/Lisbon) covering routes between Brussels Ntl and the home countries of the other carriers. Brussels Airlines is planning to set-up Korongo (Lubumbashi) with a single B737-300. The new carrier is planning to operate domestic services in the Democratic Republic of Congo and also offering connections to the Kinshasa NDjili-Brussels Ntl services operated by Brussels Airlines on a daily basis. It had previously planned to set-up airDC as a joint venture with HBA - Hewa Bora Airways (EO/Kinshasa NDjili) but that plan had failed. 24.01.2010 - Swiss (LX/Zurich) is introducing new services from Geneva and Zurich: Geneva-London Heathrow: 6x daily A319-100/A320-200/A321-100 service has started on January 10 (in addition to London City services) Geneva-Rhodes: weekly seasonal A320-200 service between July 13 and October 19 (operated by Edelweiss Air (WK/Zurich)) Zurich-Calgary-Vancouver Intl-Zurich: weekly seasonal A330-200 service between May 31 and September 13 (operated by Edelweiss Air) Zurich-Enfidha: weekly seasonal A320-200 service between May 16 and October 24 (operated by Edelweiss Air) Zurich-Jerez de la Frontera: weekly seasonal A320-200 service between May 16 and October 17 (operated by Edelweiss Air) Zurich-San Francisco: 6x weekly A340-300 service starting on June 2 Zurich-Split: weekly seasonal A320-200 service between May 15 and October 16 (operated by Edelweiss Air) It has wet-leased an A320-200 from sister carrier bmi british midland (BD/East Midlands) that operates three of the daily Geneva-London Heathrow rotations. In addition, the two carriers have signed a codeshare agreements for all services between Switzerland and the UK. Swiss will however terminate its Zurich-Riyadh-Jeddah service on January 31 and has already given up its Geneva-Bucharest Otopeni route. 11.10.2009 - bmi british midland (BD/East Midlands) has been and still is the topic of a lot of speculation this year with British Airways (BA/London Heathrow), Etihad Airways (EY/Abu Dhabi Intl), Flybe. (BE/Exeter) and Virgin Atlantic (VS/London Heathrow) all more or less openly declaring their interest in taking over the carrier should Lufthansa (LH/Frankfurt Intl) choose to sell. bmi has started codesharing on the SriLankan Airlines (UL/ Colombo Bandaranaike Intl) route from London Heathrow via Male to Colombo and has also filed for DOT approval to start a bilateral codeshare agreement with new Star Alliance partner Continental Airlines (CO/Houston Intcl). It has however terminated a similar codeshare agreement with Air Canada (AC/Montreal Trudeau) for services between the UK and Canada. bmi has given up its regional routes from East Midlands to Cologne/Bonn on September 18 and from Manchester to Glasgow Intl on September 19 and will give up its London Heathrow-Palma de Mallorca route on November 4 and its London Heathrow-Venice Marco Polo services on November 16. |
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