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bmi has announced the second phase of its market leading campaign – the removal of fuel surcharges on its regional network from 17th December. This means travellers will enjoy lower fares when they fly bmi from regional airports direct to cities across the UK and Europe.

bmi, London Heathrow’s second-largest airline, has become the first British carrier to offer its passengers an inflight communications service including the use of SMS-enabled mobile phones and PDAs (personal digital assistants). It will also allow access to the internet and email from laptop computers fitted with GSM data cards.

London Heathrow’s second largest carrier bmi has today removed all fuel surcharges on its flights within UK and Europe. This initiative recognises the current economic situation and the need to provide more affordable and transparent air fares for business and leisure travellers.

bmi, London Heathrow’s second largest airline, is to give its Heathrow to Cairo and Amman routes a major boost with the introduction of Airbus A330 wide-bodied aircraft. The changes will come into effect early in spring 2009.

bmi, London Heathrow’s second largest airline, has today unveiled plans for a redesign programme for flybmi.com. The first stage in the programme has gone live with the launch of the new home page, designed by Prospect. The rest of the site will evolve over the coming weeks and will be complete in time for the launch of the airline’s winter timetable on 26th October 2008.

bmi regional has been named the UK’s most punctual airline for the first six months of 2008, according to official statistics published by the CAA. From more than 740,000 scheduled flights analysed, whilst the average delay of all airlines was 17.3 minutes, bmi regional achieved an average delay of less than 6.5 minutes. 88% of bmi regional flights operated on time compared to the industry average of only 69%.

bmi has announced a extensive codeshare agreement with Brussels Airlines to extend services between a range of UK airports and the Belgian capital. The agreement, which will begin operation on 26 October, will enhance bmi’s commitment to being better for business, offering passengers the opportunity to book bmi flights to Brussels through flybmi.com and the travel trade from Newcastle, Manchester, Birmingham and Bristol airports.

London Heathrow’s second biggest carrier bmi, will double the number of flights to the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh from 15 January 2009. Services from Heathrow to Riyadh will increase from three services a week to six, provided a daily service with the exception of Friday. Return services from Riyadh to Heathrow will operate daily with the exception of Saturday.

The bmi group has reaffirmed its ongoing commitment to Scottish air travellers following newspaper reports that Scotland’s First Minister, Alex Salmond, had sought assurances from British Airways about their own commitment, this following speculation that BA was reviewing its operations and could pull out of Scotland.

bmi, London Heathrow’s second largest airline is offering special repatriation fares to passengers stranded abroad with XL flight bookings. Special repatriation fares are available to XL passengers returning to the UK from Florida, the Caribbean, Israel, Jordan, Turkey and Egypt and are valid for travel between 13 and 30 September.

bmi, London Heathrow’s second largest airline, has confirmed it is to double the number of services between Heathrow and Moscow Domodedovo from 26 October 2008.

bmi, London Heathrow's second largest airline, has launched its first ‘better for business’ sale to all destinations across its worldwide network. There's never been a better time to travel on business as the offer includes sale prices for both Business and Economy fares on flights across the UK, Europe, the Middle East, Russia, Central Asia and Africa.

bmi, London Heathrow’s second largest airline, has welcomed the latest findings of the Competition Commission, which calls for BAA to sell three of its seven UK airports, ending its market dominance of airport ownership in London and Scotland.

bmi regional is to add a third return flight on its route from Edinburgh to Copenhagen from 21 July, increasing the airline’s link between the two cities to 18 return flights per week. Return flights are available from just £145 return including taxes and can be booked online at flybmi.com.

bmi, London Heathrow’s second largest airline, has launched an innovative new paperless boarding system, allowing customers checking in online for bmi flights to have their boarding pass delivered electronically to their mobile phone or PDA (personal digital assistant).

bmi regional, the UK’s most punctual airline, celebrates the 20th anniversary of its route between Aberdeen and Denmark, which provides vital business links for the North East.

The majority of airlines at Heathrow are fed up with being treated as second class citizens after “being charged through the nose” for Terminal 5, said bmi group chairman Sir Michael Bishop today in a speech to the Aviation Club in London.

bmi, London Heathrow’s second largest airline, has hit out at BAA’s decision to delay a series of terminal moves as a consequence of the debacle that surrounded the opening of Terminal 5 last month.

bmi, London Heathrow’s second largest airline, has launched daily non-stop flights between London Heathrow and Tel Aviv. The introduction of the service marks the latest phase in bmi’s successful mid haul route strategy and takes the total number of destinations served by the airline from Heathrow to 38 this summer.

The Institute of Directors (IoD) in association with bmi has published a report that surveys business leaders’ attitudes towards air travel. The report, entitled ‘High Fliers: business leaders’ view on air travel’, surveyed 500 IoD members.

bmi, London Heathrow’s second largest airline, is to lease two Boeing 757-200 aircraft to further expand its mid haul strategy from Heathrow. The aircraft will be used to increase capacity and to significantly improve schedules to the existing destinations of Almaty and Freetown.

bmi, Heathrow’s second largest airline, has today told the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) that Heathrow Airport charges will increase by over 40 per cent from 1st April if recent late submissions by BAA are accepted on top of the CAA’s own current indicative proposals.

bmi regional has been named the UK’s most punctual airline for the first nine months of 2007, according to official statistics published by the CAA.

bmi, London Heathrow’s second largest airline, is to introduce new cabin baggage rules with effect from Monday 7 January 2008, following the removal of certain restrictions at a number of UK airports by the Department for Transport.

bmi, London Heathrow’s second largest airline, is to double the number of services between London Heathrow and Moscow Domodedovo from 30 March 2008 it was announced today (3 January).