It's Sunday again, and it's time for a little bit of bittersweet airplane art. Today marks the end of operations of bmibaby when Flight WW1082 from Prauge touches down at 22:15 BST at Birmingham Airport and Flight WW5330 from Malaga arrives at East Midlands Airport at 22:45 BST. Here's some pics from Birmingham Airport, Belfast International and East Midlands … [Read more...]
Bye Bye (BMI) Baby….
It's getting close to closing time for the Low Cost Carrier offshoot of BMI - BMI Baby. With the final flights set for the 9th September (Sunday this week), they've put a little ditty out on their website: BMI Baby was create out of the spare Boeing 737's BMI mainline had leftover after mainline switched to Airbus operations. Based out of different airport during its … [Read more...]
BMI Baby wind up begins – first set of routes terminated
BMI Baby is starting to wind down with the first set of routes now "suspended" - with a major hit for Belfast City Airport loosing BMI Baby service entirely, and Birmingham Airport and East Midlands Airport being reduced to holiday routes mainly. The routes that have now gone: Belfast City Airport (BHD) to: Alicante, Amsterdam, Birmingham, East … [Read more...]
Aer Lingus prepares to move to Belfast City Airport
From the BBC, it seems that FlyeBe and the remains of BMI mainline will have done competition at George Best Belfast City Airport. Aer Lingus is on the verge of moving its Belfast International Airport operations to Belfast City Airport which will be confirmed Now whilst this sounds great in theory, there are some pluses and minuses Firstly, Aer Lingus will have to … [Read more...]
Airplane Art – BMI Baby Boeing 737-300
It's Sunday again, so it must be time for some more airplane art. This week, it's a BMI Baby Boeing 737-300 just about to touch down at East Midlands Airport after flying in from some destination. More of course next week! And yes, I'll be doing the draw for the 1000 miles in a bit. Check back in a few hours.... … [Read more...]
BMIBaby Fallout – Birmingham and EMA recover… Belfast City less so…
More response today from the fallout of BMI Baby being wound down. Birmingham Airport has announced that they will be bringing two aircraft to join it's local base, and will add more flights to Malaga, Alicante, Rome, Palma, Faro and Barcelona; all destinations served by bmibaby. Meanwhile, Flybe will continue to operate to Belfast City, with EasyJet joining them in the … [Read more...]
BMI Baby to close shop – First Belfast, then everywhere else…
It seems I spoke a bit too soon when I wrote about the competitors gunning for BMI Baby. Today, IAG has made its decision over baby, and it is very bad news indeed for the 470 staff members who work for BMI Baby, as well as anyone who has tickets booked with the following happening: Routes operating to and from Belfast City Airport will close down on from 11th June All … [Read more...]
IAG doubts it can sell BMI Baby or BMI Regional off
Things are not looking rosey for BMI Baby and BMI Regional at the moment. The two subdivisions of BMI were meant to be sold off before the IAG takeover by Lufthansa, but they failed to be sold. IAG is not interested in owning the two units who operate to very different markets - BMI Regional operating high value regional routes, whilst BMI Baby operates the low cost model … [Read more...]
Dates for your diary…
As BMI is taken over by IAG and becomes part of British Airways, here's a list of dates that are important: As of now: Diamond Club members can earn on BA Flights and vice versa. BMI has formally exited from the Star Alliance Diamond Club Members can access BA lounges at LHR and LGW Big upcoming dates 1st May - Diamond Club to BA Executive Club status matching … [Read more...]
The Winners of the BMI Purchase
Earlier today, I looked at the losers of the sale of BMI to IAG. Lets be more congratulative and look at the winners The big winner is of course International Airlines Group and its subsidiary British Airways who have got a total of 42 pairs of slots to play with at London Heathrow. As well as that they get the staff, facilities and aircraft too. Lufthansa although a … [Read more...]
