Originally Posted by
Oxon Flyer
but if you try and do it the other way, with MME-LHR on the bmibaby site, you get whisked into the bmi booking engine without any hint of notification, so it's hardly surprisig this confuses the hell out of many users.
Indeed it does. However the change of the URL, the look, feel, colour scheme and the copy that reads: "You are being transferred from bmibaby.com, as the selected flights are operated by bmi and will be processed by flybmi.com" - I'd take those all as being decent clues.
Now I realise the copy isn't actually huge, but it is there when doing MME-LHR on bmibaby.com. You probably missed the copy after being dazzled by the amazing flybmi.com site