Tuesday, 21 June 2011

BD: New tag on to Amritsar

British Midland International is slowly expanding it's wings now it has it's full compliment of two Airbus A330-200's back.

Today, a new tag-on flight has been announced, with service to Amritsar - BMI's second attempt at heading to India.

Service commences October 13th, operating 3 times a week (subject to governmental approval)


The Northern Indian city will be served three times a week by BMI starting on October 13 with an Airbus A330-200.

The proposed schedule is:

Outbound - Operates Monday, Thursday and Saturday
BD991 - Depart LHR 09:55, Arrive ALA 23:20, Depart ALA 00:10, Arrive ATQ 02:45

Inbound - Tuesday, Friday and Sunday
BD992 - Depart ATQ 04:10, Arrive ALA 07:45, Depart ALA 0845, Arrive LHR 10:50

For those who think BMI is playing risk here, this could be an interesting play as there is no current direct link from London to Amritsar. 3 times a week is enough of "communications link" to make it worth while, whilst BMI are risking nothing other than having a plane on the ground at ALA for 6 hours. Might as well try and make them earn some money.

That or BMI wants to incite more regime change (after all, look what happened to the Tripoli service - they managed to operate 1 rotation before all hell broke loose there...)

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