BMI being taken over by Lufthansa
 

Lufthansa already owns 30% of BMI, so this isn't surprising, with all the consolidation that's going on in the airline industry. The real plus for LH is that BMI has a lot of landing slots at Heathrow, which will enable LH to operate more lucrative transatlantic flights via LHR.

There's a lot of it about, what with Delta and NW merging too. They will be maintaining the links with Air France-KLM.

Really annoyed about this as I have always been impressed with BMI, and I hate Lufthansa!

BMI operates the only Brussels-Edinburgh service, which my family and I use several times a year. I wonder how long it'll be before Lufthansa does away with that route?

Wondering why you hate Lufthansa, hanl. I've always been impressed with their service.

StCirq, I've only flown Lufthansa a handful of times but didn't enjoy any of those flights!
Maybe "hate" was too strong a word - my poor experiences were more in terms of comfort (tatty/broken seats), food (awful), service on board (grumpy/unhelpful), etc. rather than delays or any major issues.

Anyway I'd still rather they take over the Brussels/Edinburgh route than do away with it all together!!

I've just read on the Manchester Evening News web site that BMI are ceasing transatlantic flights from Manchester from next year.

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co...._pulls_flights