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!

Originally posted by LBARULES
LBA is not entirely EMB, we have 1 Fokker 100 during this winter and the summer will be 3 Fokker 100s as well as 1x ERj135 and 145.

We had an internal communication about Fokker’s at LBA recently. I think you’ll find the one that runs through LBA at the moment is LHR based, and does the LBA/LHR shuttles only. As far as I’m aware, no LBA cabin crew are trained on the F100, only the EMB’s.

As for more coming through the summer, the aircraft concerned are being leased temporarily to bmi regional so that they can return 2 wet-leased ERJ135/145’s on loan from other airlines. I think they’ve only been able to release the F100’s from LHR as and when the A319’s arrive.

Its a strange way of doing things I know, but I guess thats what happens when you have several different operations in the same group!

Originally posted by greekdude1
Didn’t they have one of these not too long ago, but just decided to shut it down? I think if Virgin really wanted to have feeder routes, they have enough capitol to purchase or lease a few narrow bodies, even if they are second hand.

I don’t really think you can call Athens a European network. They did have something weird on a really old turboprop from Maastricht I think, it didn’t last long. Obviously there’s Virgin Express too, but its not UK based and doesn’t feed any Virgin Atlantic flights. What I mean is, if you call Virgin Atlantic reseravtions and want to connect from somewhere in Europe, they’ll offer you a codeshared bmi flight to get you to your VS flight.

Nice pics! The EZY A319 is quite a regular at EMA at the moment.

Have you ever seen so many clapt out old 737’s though!!! The wonderful world of no-frills hey!

Don’t forget bmibaby are also now offering you the ability to select your own seat on the flight during the booking process!!!

If its anything like Canjet (which I’ve recently booked on), using Navataire airline reservations, it shows you a seat map of the aircraft at the end of your booking and you can literally select the exact seat, not just a preference!

I think the whole EZY concept of jump on board as fast as you can and grab a seat is rather tacky, and people don’t like it. Its the little things that make you loyal to an airline, and price obviously!

As long as WW stick with undercutting EZY, they’ll be fine.

Incidentally, I have a strong feeling these LGW routes will be W patterns operated by EMA crew from what I’ve heard.

Stunning! Really like it!

I much prefer the blue engines to dull grey.

Maybe bmibaby should commision you to do something with that wishy washy livery 😉

Thinking about it now, I’m sure there was some link there to TransAer after they went under. I’m pretty sure the Prime A300 was an Irish reg as were TransAer.

I seem to remember one of my colleagues at the airport nickname Prime as “TransAer – The Revenge!” :p