The Truth About BA - Can BA be trusted under WW?
11/05/12 | Forum post in reply to Tête_de_cuvée

tete your obsession with Willie Walsh is getting tiresome. Every European airline reporting this past month has suffered adversely from fuel costs.Just a few - Easyjet, Ryanair,Lufthansa group and AF/KLM. The past Q is low season and typically...

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BA to Leeds Bradford
11/05/12 | Forum post in reply to TominScotland

If you read the IAG press release it speaks of Leeds/Bradford, Rotterdam and Zagreb , all from Heathrow, plus that they are talking to a number of airports who wish to get LHR service as the bmi slot release unwinds. Clearly not the obvious...

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bmi regional and bmibaby's new names
02/05/12 | Forum post in reply to skyguy79

IAG has no use for them as publicly sttaed so if they are not sold soon they will just be bmi regional (in liquidation) and bmibaby (in liquidation).. Sad but predictable.

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BA: Where should they start to in Americas, Africa and Asia with their new slots?
25/04/12 | Forum post in reply to sparkyflyer

ZKSmith, I dont know abot some of the places you mention but Baku has loaded very well for bmi and previously Bmed because of oil. Flights are frequently full in both biz and economy in the daily 321's and never sold at a sale price, ever. In...

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Terminal changes?
23/04/12 | Forum post in reply to transtraxman

Let's get realistic - LHR is over full, and space and capacity of any sort is at apremium, be it terminals, stands, reunway use or ground handling. All of us have hooror stories of poor transits through it. If we beleive the basic stats, bmi...

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Life is Good for BA!
20/04/12 | Forum post in reply to LeTigre

LP they are passed to an EU appointed administrator and 'sold' to the highest bidder against the EU decided rules allowing the takeover. If no bidder is accepted then they revert to IAG/BA, ditto if they are not used under the slot allocation...

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BA Cutbacks & Redundancies At LGW
12/04/12 | Forum post in reply to JamesBAgold

The press reports are about change/outsourcing for Gatwick ground service staff both on the ramp and in the terminal not cabin crew. After the Hetahrow cabin crew debacle I am sure that those affected will see that they can negotiate a deal or...

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bmi Diamond Club: 31 March Deadline for Star Redemptions?
04/04/12 | Forum post in reply to VintageKrug

bmi to leave Star Alliance on April 18. airlineroute.net is reporting that Asiana the Korean airline is reporting on its web site that bmi will leave Star Alliance on April 18th. The release is in Korean only.....

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BMI routes - which African, Mid East & Central Asia routes will/should survive?
04/04/12 | Forum post in reply to sparkyflyer

How about Kilimajaro as an add on to Khartoum. A booming local tourist trap and underserved from Europe bar KLM via Nairobi. And Amritsar direct 3 times a week by 767. The local Punjabi community would approve, indect services never have the...

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