Originally Posted by jbfield

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.