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Originally Posted by UK Commercials
I’ve heard from a reliable source at BMI that the LBA-CDG services will be withdrawn in the very near future as this route is under performing.

Hi

This can’t be right. The Paris route is one off the better performing routes from LBA for bmi regional. Theses Flights are always over 35/40 passengers on them. Even though it’s up against a 1 daily mid day Jet2 B737-300 service.

If any route was under performing from LBA for bmi regional I would say it’s the Glasgow route. Passenger figures a dropping like fly’s just at the moment for some reason. They are having to stick the smaller ERJ135 on sometimes, as they can’t even fill the larger ERJ145 that is scheduled to operate the route.

Its not as cut and dried as that I’m afraid. It doesn’t matter how many bums on seats you have. With an airline like bmi, its about yield too. I used to be a manager in the sales department for years, so I should know!

Bmi used to rely on business class yield, but obviously now they rely on people buying the more expensive flexible tickets on non-business class routes. Bmi regional rely on business class yield. If we have 30 or 40 bums on seats who’ve all paid £25.00 each way, doesn’t make for a profitable flight does it?

The flysunjet.com website appears to have been removed altogether!

What happened?

Was it closed down by choice or some other reason?

:confused:

I thought JN was the schedualed Code For Excel Airways?

Jon

Yep, they do use “JN” for scheduled flights. However, there is no such thing as a scheduled designator code, think about Easyjet using “EZY”, they’re not charter yet use a 3 letter code. Also, Thomson charter (Britannia as was), using “BY”, yet they are charter.

Airlines are usually issued with a two and three letter code each, one by IATA and one by ICAO I believe. They can use whichever they want, whichever way around.

That picture your referring to looks very much like the Premium Cabin seats I had on G-EOMA, but the pic looks squashed as the seat pitch was better than that.

G-EOMA definately had seat back TV’s, although not very state of the art and not AVOD.

Do monarchs premium cabins have seat back Tv’s?
I just found this website:

http://www.discoveregypt.co.uk/flight-information.php

Along the top it shows pictures of monarch seats with PTV’s.

But you can’t book flights scheduled after the 23rd. And the slot wasn’t bmibabys, it was Air Wales’. When baby handed the route over to 6G to operate, they gave their slots to them as well. bmibaby was just like the booking agent, nothing more.

Maybe Air Wales will sell the slots back to baby then. I would imagine they could do with the cash! :rolleyes:

Some very valid points here.

I think bmi have been reeling from one disaster to another recently. Don’t forget though… they’re known for changing their minds frequently so I wouldn’t think it will be long before we see a total u-turn again on the LHR service and introduction of baby fares.

Sounds like the long-haul service, which used to be top-knotch has gone down the pan too, what with the introduction of the 757, now the 767, paying for drinks etc. Its not what they were known for.

Ever since I was involved with the launch of bmibaby, the “keep the passengers seperate from mainline” concept hasn’t worked. Customers will call any number and stand in any queue possible, yet if they were baby customers they would get short shrift if they were in the wrong place!

Maybe a little rebranding all round might do the trick?

I heard from a friend that they’ve recently laid off some new entry pilot’s they’d taken on.

I would suspect their cash flow sheet must make quite interesting reading with all the chopping and changing and the reference to becoming sustainable by the airline representative further up!