romoured bmi baby coming to Leeds

Referance the above it would appear that the Edi route would be operated 2x daily with a Cork rotation in the middle, which doesn’t seem to have an aircraft utilised, and i would say it would have enough time to do a sun run in there, and then a 2 or 3x BRU rotation. If they did incorperate the GLA services into the 2 aircraft i think that would sound more realistic!

I think Paris will remain on the Embs for the forseeable future with the Jet2 announcement of a Paris run!

baby just added extra flights on the GLA-EMA route

Curiouser and curiouser.

Awww I see I always found it a bit unusual that they arrive at the same time it never clicked with me that it was a codeshare with BMIBaby being a LCC.They do fly to ORk from EMA,LGW and MAN.

Sorry mate your wrong, it’s operated by Air Wales.

http://www.bmibaby.com/bmibaby/en-gb/sectiondetails.aspx?p=12

Bmi Baby also compete with Air Wales on the CWL-ORK route the latter using a atr while baby use the 737.

I would be suprised if BMIbaby take over the LBA-BRU service; this happened at EMA and the service has gone back to BMI regional due to the business nature of the route.

Regarding timings for EMA-BCN flights; I travelled twice this year to BCN and flew from MAN at a more sociable time even though it’s double the distance from home.

Having the PIK-CWL flight operated by Air Wales can’t be a good thing, if all they can fill is an ATR compared to a 737. Suppose its better not to utilise a 737 on that route if it is not needed there.

baby just added extra flights on the GLA-EMA route and the PIK-CWL is now operated by Air Wales

I thought I had heard that as well!! Bmibaby are doing well on most MAN routes though!!

It’s funny you should say that, because I’m sure easyJet announced a few weeks ago that they were stopping the EMA route. Never got a reason.

Yes, there are all sorts of rumours and counter rumors flying around just now. When Bmi Baby moved the Cardiff service to PIK, they cited the reason for not moving the East Midlands route as well was in order not to let Easyjet rule the roost at Glasgow.

Now they’re saying they’re thinking of axing the route, as are Easyjet apparently. I guess it’s not a great seller for either operator. When you consider check in times, transfer times etc etc, it’s probably just as quick to take the car.

Easyjet are easily beating them on the EMA flight apparently

It’s funny you should say that, because I’m sure easyJet announced a few weeks ago that they were stopping the EMA route. Never got a reason.

Bmi Baby are getting everywhere.LGW-ORK and PRA why dont they concentrate on 1 or 2 places.

Ah right cheers, yep they seem to be struggling on a few routes.

As far as I can see, they are quite an expensive airline.

They must have been doing really hopeless on the BCN route from EMA to pull it at the same time as Easy (Who also must have been doing bad.) Despite Ryanairs Gerona service, you would think they would still be demand for BCN, no matter what the flight times.I noticed their Ibiza flight from MAN has terrible flight times, arriving back to MAN about 4 in the morning. Don’t know how long some of the routes will last from MAN to places like Ibiza and Bordeaux, hope i’m wrong and they are doing well on them.

You also have to wonder about the future of the Murcia and Dublin routes from EMA now Ryanair have moved in.

Do you mean the Baby flight to EMA or BMi’s flight to LBA?

The EMA Baby flight, their Glasgow-Cardiff service moved to PIK and is also struggling, so much so that they’ve handed the running of it to Air Wales using one of the ATR’s instead of the 737.

Easyjet are easily beating them on the EMA flight apparently ?

Do you mean the Baby flight to EMA or BMi’s flight to LBA?

As they seem to be doing so badly with the GLA route, pehaps an aircraft may be freed up from there soon?

Your usual stand worry Steve 😀

I don’t know whether CDG would work, as they seem to have alot of businessmen on that route (Or at least what i’ve seen when i’ve watched them boarding.) Cant see them to keen on flying Baby.

Cork would work i’m pretty sure though, they keep having a/c shortages as it is don’t they? I think they definitly need some more. I can see them removing a couple of a/c from EMA myself, now they seem to be struggling against both Ryanair and Easyjet.

I am a bit curious about the ways of bmibaby, lots of new routes and sectors keep appearing with the same number of aircraft, and a limit on the number they can operate. 2 aircraft would be ok i think to operate the services, but they have bases locally at MME and MAN. The routes look good on paper, but they have a good reputation with bmi mainline operating from Leeds. Lo-co services on the EDI and ORK routes would be good, but i would have thought that a 3x daily CDG would have been more of a sensable option. This would leave a F100 to operate the FRA and CPH routes that keep being rumoured.

I hope we get some more stands to park these aircraft on!

God, hope its true! Not sure whether I can see it happening though unless they get some more planes, and surely they don’t need 2 a/c to operate 2 routes? Surely they can use the same.