Gatwickgunner From United Kingdom, joined Feb 2001, 89 posts, RR: 0 Posted (11 years 9 months 1 week 4 days 13 hours ago) and read 1043 times:
in this weeks gatwick news it says british midland has applied to fly from gatwick to washington and chicago,and also virgin to houston,does antone know anything about this,or confirm it
Gatwickgunner From United Kingdom, joined Feb 2001, 89 posts, RR: 0 Reply 2, posted (11 years 9 months 1 week 4 days 13 hours ago) and read 1003 times:
i see,do you think the routes will get the go ahead or not,it would be nice to see bm at lgw
David_itl From United Kingdom, joined Jun 2001, 7145 posts, RR: 14 Reply 5, posted (11 years 9 months 1 week 4 days 11 hours ago) and read 950 times:
I think they are still waiting for UK government approval, but I am 99% certain that the bmi flights will be transferred over to LHR as soon as LHR is opened up as they have no feeder traffic at LGW as they have at MAN and LHR.
Johnnybgoode From Germany, joined Jan 2001, 2187 posts, RR: 7 Reply 6, posted (11 years 9 months 1 week 4 days ago) and read 919 times:
well, somehow i doubt that bmi is really interested in operating such flights from LGW. they´ve got absolutely no operations at LGW and would have not feed. there might enough O&D for these routes, but it would cost bmi a great deal to establish handling and maintenance operations for the first time and LGW.
but who knows, someone else could take care about that...
rgds
daniel
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N175dz From United Kingdom, joined Aug 2000, 274 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (11 years 9 months 1 week 3 days 22 hours ago) and read 907 times:
I would be suprised to see BMI operating long-haul out of LGW as they have no flights there currently, as Johnnybgoode stated. It would also be a huge concession to BA and Oneworld about the flight for BMI to operate l/h from LHR. Why bother setting up ops at LGW, just to move them to LHR when they can. Expensive.
Also, BMI don't have the a/c to be setting up lots of new routes yet. I know they have another couple of A330-243's on order, but they'll need to order some more soon, surely? Maybe we'll even see some A340s for long-haul heading east? I hope so.
Their l/h service is fantastic. I would reccommend it to anyone.
US330 From United States of America, joined Aug 2000, 3746 posts, RR: 14 Reply 9, posted (11 years 9 months 1 week 3 days 14 hours ago) and read 871 times:
I thought I had heard somewhere that BM said that they are looking into transatlantic flights from Edinburgh or Glasgow.
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