Economy Class & Beyond

BD: Regional Services Expands

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The little subset of BMI, BMI Regional has anoucced more routes from Edinburgh and Glasgow for this summer.EDI-CPH (Edinburgh to Copenhagen)Additional flights Friday and Sunday from 03/06/11 to 28/08/11 GLA-CPH (Glasgow to Copenhagen)Additional Saturday flight from 03/06/11 to 28/08/11 (Now a daily service)EDI-ZRH (Edinburgh to Zurich) Additional Services Monday - Friday.BMI … [Read more...]

WW (BD): Grows up in Belfast, Cuts the chord in Manchester and Cardiff.

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The low cost wing of BMI - BMI Baby has annouced changes for it's Autumn/Winter programme for 2011.The main changes are...From Belfast City (BHD): From Autumn/Winter 2011:Six-Times Weekly service to Amsterdam (Commencing 31/10/11)Two-Times Weekly service to Geneva (Commencing 17/12/11)For Summer 2012: BHD to Malaga, Alicante, Palma, Faro and Ibiza East Midlands (EMA)East … [Read more...]

BA/BD: Flight to TIP suspended.

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Both British Airways and British Midland International have suspended their Tripoli operations due to the unrest in the area.For BMI this is very bad news as the service litrally begun the day before.Both BA and British Airways have updated their travel information. Check before you set off Meanwhile, the FCO has updated it's advice for Libya: We recommend against all but … [Read more...]

BD: Need Diamond Club Destination Miles? Now is the time to buy….

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BMI is once again doing a 20% extra on miles purchases offer.So at the moment you can pick up 24,000 miles extra for £255 (£240+£15 transaction fee!), which works out to& 1.0625p/mile.You can buy up to 24,000 miles a year to a Diamond Club account, as well as gift miles. You'll have to log into your account at www.flybmi.com to action this. The promotion … [Read more...]

NYC: Pictures Loading!!!!

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Yes I've been tardy. And there's a LOT of them this time. But the pictures are loading up as fast as I can process them.Loaded for your pleasure:BHX to AMS with BMI Baby (WW1101)AMS to IAD with United (UA947)IAD to LGA with United Express - Shuttle America (UA7517)Holiday Inn, Long Island Manhattan View LGA to IAD with United Express - Atlantic SouthEast Airlines (UA6047)IAD to … [Read more...]

BD: Morocco Moves Zone

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Intresting news from BMI with Morocco moving redemption zone from Zone 5 to Zone 2.Instead of costing 40000 miles for a Y class round trip with all the taxes, this now drops to 12000 miles instead. Of course, for Diamond Club Gold holders, Gold Upgrades or CUVs can also be used to bump up to business.A logical move this is - least of all it is being served by Short Haul … [Read more...]

NYC: Positioning in – Which is more stupidly priced… KL or WW?

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I'll be getting onto the meat of the run tommorow, but today, I'm going to discuss how to postion in. And the stupidity of some airlines.To commence this run, I need to haul-ass to Amsterdam. From Birmingham, that boils down to two options - KLM or BMI Baby. Now, I'm a minited AirFrance/KLM Gold. And for fun I popped in a query into their fare engine for a single flight from … [Read more...]

BD: The Road to Miles and More… is on hold – Diamond Club to remain through 2011 at least.

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For those of us who use BMI's Diamond Club as our frequent flyer programme, the ongoing dark cloud of "Will it merge into Miles and More or not" has been a big question.Well after a meeting, the following news is out - and it's good:Now that bmi is a part of the Lufthansa group of airlines, we are evaluating being part of Miles & More in the long term. A final decision has … [Read more...]

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