Wednesday, 1 June 2011

BD: A330 Routes Confirmed.

Well after making a few pennies hiring an A330 to Turkish Airlines, BMI have now got the other frame of it's massive A330 fleet of 2 aircraft, and has decided how to deploy them.

The frame will be operating:
Heathrow-Almaty/Bishkek from 25/06/2011
Heathrow-Freetown from 26/06/2011.

Heathrow-Freetown will be non-stop now, as the previous aircraft that operated the route - an A321 - required a fuel stop along the way.

The other A330 will operate:
London - Riyadh
London - Jeddah
London - Dammam.

Both are configured in Business and Economy Classes - the Premium Economy of old long gone.

The Boeing 757 leased by BMI will be returned to Astreaus - it's task complete..

Well it's good to see the BMI A330 subfleet up to speed at long last (as a semi frequent user of them when they operated MAN-ORD). Hopefully the leasing costs of these birds aren't going to be too much of a millstone round BMI's neck, and that they can make the extra capacity work and pay.

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