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BMI British Midland are the second largest ‘traditional’ scheduled airline in the UK, although they have only recently started operating long haul flights. With no-frills airlines taking many of their value conscious customers away, in 2005 BMI stopped offering free on-board catering and started selling some of its short-haul flights under the banner of its BMIbaby budget offshoot.
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Alternative Names (including former names, popular mis-spellings etc):
- Flybmi, BMI flights
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In the highly competitive short-haul market, BMI might not stand out particularly well from the crowd, but they do offer a high intensity of competition with their main rival British Airways, especially on domestic shuttle flights to cities such as Manchester, Edinburgh and Glasgow. Additionally, BMI are the only operator on a number routes from Heathrow, including on domestic flights to Belfast and Inverness.
BMI started its long haul network in Manchester, and currently operates flights from there to Chicago and Las Vegas in the USA, as well as Antigua, Barbados and St Lucia in the Caribbean. In March 2005, BMI started flights from London Heathrow to India, taking advantage of the Indian government’s decision to lift competition restrictions. The difficulty in procuring slots for more long haul operations from Heathrow, and the particular restrictions governing flights between Heathrow and New York, have long been a bone of contention with BMI, who have also been subject to persistent rumours over a possible takeover or merger with Virgin Atlantic. As long as both organisations continue to be led by headstrong chief executives (BMI chief Sir Michael Bishop might not be as well known as Virgin’s Sir Richard Branson, but he is an equally tough business negotiator), any such merger remains a distant prospect.
Major shareholders of BMI include Star Alliance partner Lufthansa, who have a codesharing agreement with BMI on flights between the UK and Germany.
BMI News Stories
- BMI to increase Saudi flights from Heathrow - (04/07/2008)
- BMI launch Caribbean flights sale - (12/06/2008)
- BMI extends flights sale - (10/04/2008)
- BMI set to increase Heathrow flights - (18/02/2008)
- Inverness to Heathrow flights face the axe - (04/01/2008)
- BMI launch New Year sale - (02/01/2008)
- BMI to launch Tel Aviv flights from London - (12/12/2007)
- New Cologne flights from East Midlands - (06/12/2007)
- BMI take on 17 BMED routes - (17/09/2007)
- BMI to launch daily flights from Heathrow to Tel Aviv - (12/09/2007)
- BMI and VIrgin take on BA transatlantic dominance - (16/08/2007)
- Axe falls on BMI flights to Amsterdam from Aberdeen - (10/08/2007)
- Bmi launch Cairo flights from London Heathrow - (19/07/2007)
- Bmi increases fleet in preparation for transatlantic expansion - (11/07/2007)
- New Lyon flights launched from Manchester - (29/05/2007)
- Bmi Regional top flights punctuality chart - (04/04/2007)
- Lille gets its first UK flights - (01/03/2007)
- New Brussels flights from Aberdeen - (14/02/2007)
- Air link between London Heathrow and Jersey restored - (29/01/2007)
- BMI axes Paris flights from Heathrow and Leeds Bradford - (19/01/2007)
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