Originally Posted by
Traveloguy
What exactly did BD offer *A towards the end? I'm sorry but as someone who actually flew BD metal regularly up until last year, I'm now of the opinion that towards the end there has been very little value it offered to the alliance as a whole.
Maybe not from the core airline point of view, but from a Diamond Club perspective, it's only bmi that got me into StarAlliance and only bmi that has kept me there.
Out of all my leisure travel over the last 8 years, it's bmi that made me book over 90% of the flights on *alliance airlines. I may not have always connected with a bmi flight (although sometimes I did), they're the ones that brought the *A airlines revenue.