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 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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

Another day, another set of account out. This time, it's the Lufthansa group posting another loss of of €104m for the first half of 2010, an improvement of the loss made last year. Of course, it's time to trot out the reasons why, and in no particular order:Pilots strikesCosts of integrating BMICosts of integrating Austrian "That" Volcanic ash cloud causing EU Airspace to … [Read more...]

Well Farnborough is over for another 2 years (as next year, we're back to Paris), so lets look at the which carriers have decided to splurge some pennies at equipment makers.Okay? We can have airplanes!China's Okay Airways has ordered 10 Boeing 737-800s which will be delivered from 2014. Previously just a lessee, this will be the first purchase directly from Boeing.This will … [Read more...]

As information is slowly filling in month by month about the changes to Diamond Club and how it will or will not be merging into Miles and More, GhettoIFE.com will be keeping a very close eye on events (as a reporter, analyst and customer).NOTE as of 9th February, there will be no movement into Miles and More during 2011. See most recent post Most Recent Post:The Long Road to … [Read more...]