Economy Class & Beyond

ORDIX: Mixed Classes – Infinite fun – Pictures going live

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Well if you're looking to the sidebar you might have noticed a bunch of Trip Type Photoblog entries.But if you're feeling lazy, feel free head to the ones listed below ;)To Heathrow and the Star Alliance LoungeUnited International Business Class - London Heathrow to Chicago O'Hare The Hyatt Regency O'Hare  Chicago Architecture Foundation Boat tour: Part 1, Part 2 … [Read more...]

Airplane p0rn – BMI Airbus A320

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It's just about Sunday here still, so it's time for this week's Airplane p0rn. This week - it's a British Midland International Airbus A320 taxing at it's home base of Heathrow Airport More next week! … [Read more...]

BD: BMI Regional to Feed Brussels Airlines, Of course, we are one big happy fleet….

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(Bonus points to those who can guess the reference in the title)BMI Regional (the ERJ flying arm of British Midland) is realigning its timetables, and adding new codeshares to its flights to connect with Brussels Airlines (also owned partially by Lufthansa)Marketing Brussels as an alternative to other busy hubs (or to you and me: London Heathrow), it's planned that you can use … [Read more...]

BD: BMI is off on anohter mad deployment… to Tripoli?

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Once again, someone is smoking something good at Donnington Hall with the formal announcement that BMI will be commencing a service from London to Tripoli, Libya. They will join British Airways and Libyan Airlines who fly from Heatrow, and Air Afriqiyah from Gatwick. Seemly, the route has been introduced due to the oil and gas sector which BMI is building a little niche to … [Read more...]

Unite shows it’s teeth in court …. to BMI…

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Unite is getting in the habit of showing it's teeth when it isn't unhappy. This time it's angry at BMI and Lufthansa over an unpaid pay rise which was initially deferred for a year, with BMI is being taken to court by the union Unite over claims it has failed to honour a three-year pay award to its staff.Unite claims that 3,000 members at the company have not had received a … [Read more...]

Kevin gets a little Seoul – To Seoul and Hong Kong with Asiana and Thai

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Kevin gets a little Seoul - To Seoul and Hong Kong with Asiana, and Thai in F and C (and a Lufty segment in Y). (BHX-FRA, FRA-ICN, ICN-HKG, HKG-ICN-LHR) a Or "Burn Baby Burn... Miles Inferno!" For previous trip reports, click here! ---- To quote Monty Python, "And now time for something completely different”. Regular GhettoIFE.com and Flyertalk Trip report readers … [Read more...]

BD: A321 Refurbishment, Paint work, Domestic cuts ahead and the long haul dream

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Heer Prock-Schauer has announced a revamp of the A321 fleet and a few other titbits as part of the restructuring of BMI. Speaking to Flight, some announcements have been made which could make for interesting times in BMI land..So whats up for work?A321 going for refurbishment works, with new business class seats and IFE being installed. In addition, they will finally be getting … [Read more...]

Pre Trip Planning: Seoul and Hong Kong

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Well in a few short days I'll be undertaking one of my most intresting runs that I have attempted to do - and that's to Seoul and then onto Hong Kong.I'll be explaining a lot more in my trip report that I'll be knocking together, over the next few weeks, but here's a quick overview - and some of this can be laid at the doors of BMI.Why? With the uncertainty of BMI's Diamond … [Read more...]

The Long Road to Miles and More: German press annouces possible date, more questions than answers

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Globalflight reports that "bmi will terminate its Frequent Flyer Program Diamond Club towards June 2011 and merge it into the program of its new owner Lufthansa, Miles & More." Well we know about that BMI is on the verge of terminating it thanks to the investor speech Herr Prock-Schauer gave a few weeks ago. There is some analysis on the cost of an EU redemption - however … [Read more...]

Another step towards Miles and More – HON Circle and Excutive Bonus miles now earnable on BMI.

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Well the long march continues, with Miles and More Members now able to earn Executive bonus and HON Circle miles on BMI. Normally, earning these bonuses is restricted to fully integrated (ie fully owned) members of Miles and More. FTL and SEN can earn 25% too (expect on BMI Baby flights). So for all Miles and more Members, this is good news. BMI announced that it would offer … [Read more...]