[VintageKrug]

Dear Twits

On BT, you need to leave a full space between any text and a weblink to make it “live”.

Sorry to hear the Bermuda route speculation touched a nerve, causing you to change your handle.

[PatJordan]

I tried to open the link in th BMI post above…it directed me to the facebook page depicting a child.

Can somebody in BT have a look at this, as I’m not entirely comfortable with it.

[PatJordan]

That BMI link issue seems to have been resolved, it now goes to a BMI page.

[Age_of_Reason]

Lots of under-informed junkmail resulting from a very valid concern.

First – remember BMid is wholly owned by Lufhansa and any BMid policy is therefore Lhnsa in redwhiteandblue. Lhnsa is regarded as having overpaid for its 100% t/o of BMid, but this was presumably justified by the valuation placed on LHR slots. If BA had bought up BMid then discarding the domestic flights would have been followed by an obligation to relinquish LHR released sloits which would not have come to Lhansa.

2nd Regarding the criticism of running feeders at cost and making money on longhaul – that is a recipe for success, is it not? KLM and AF have made huge inroads in the scottish market by that strategy. Hopefully Lhnsa will start to rebuild – perhaps under the BrusselsAirlines badge with (ironically) BMid feeders.

3rd The Central Scottish Airport was always the obvious solution and a badge is still reserved for it. But the selected site was between Falkirk and Grangemouth and died primarily due to the start of WW2, but also postwar petrochemical growth precluded airport development in proximity to a MHF. Once the international flights stopped making fuelstops at PIK, GLA as the industrial area with RollsRoyce at Hillington driving the business was the primary candidate – but that was when the M8 was a free-flowing cross-country route, not an urban botleneck.

The future for Scottish travel is a robust BA feeder service to the T5 hub, growth in Europaean feeders, growth in direct transatlantic flights and growth in direct flights to Middleeastern hubs – hopefully EDi will get such a flight to compete with GLA-DBZ.

[CallMeIshmael]

Now MAN and CWL too for BMIBaby

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13066764

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