British Midland International is slowly expanding it’s wings now it has it’s full compliment of two Airbus A330-200’s back.
Today, a new tag-on flight has been announced, with service to Amritsar – BMI’s second attempt at heading to India.
Service commences October 13th, operating 3 times a week (subject to governmental approval)
The Northern Indian city will be served three times a week by BMI starting on October 13 with an Airbus A330-200.
The proposed schedule is:
Outbound – Operates Monday, Thursday and Saturday
BD991 – Depart LHR 09:55, Arrive ALA 23:20, Depart ALA 00:10, Arrive ATQ 02:45
Inbound – Tuesday, Friday and Sunday
BD992 – Depart ATQ 04:10, Arrive ALA 07:45, Depart ALA 0845, Arrive LHR 10:50
For those who think BMI is playing risk here, this could be an interesting play as there is no current direct link from London to Amritsar. 3 times a week is enough of “communications link” to make it worth while, whilst BMI are risking nothing other than having a plane on the ground at ALA for 6 hours. Might as well try and make them earn some money.
That or BMI wants to incite more regime change (after all, look what happened to the Tripoli service – they managed to operate 1 rotation before all hell broke loose there…)
