greekdude,

Yes, bmi diamond club members can earn points on VS and vice versa. They codeshare on several of our routes.

As for the Mumbai and Delhi routes, I would have thought operating from Manchester would be easier as they already have the crew’s there, there isn’t any direct competition (only routings being via somewhere else) and I hear that PIA do well on their routes to Pakistan.

I would imagine there is something restricting bmi from going to India from LHR too. There usually is! I think there’s some sort of agreement in place already with Air India to allow them to pick up passengers for their onwards flights from LHR to JFK, and I don’t think bmi would be included in this. I would imagine its all to do with BA!