It doesn't usually take that much to confuse me in my advancing years ... although I am lucky that my work car park is adjacent to the perimeter fence for NWI, so I continue to see the last vestiges of BMI as the Regional planes come and go from ABZ - this being the last link because the final Baby plane that was parked up has now disappeared.

In the UK, BMI-R now operate out of BRS, ABZ, MAN, BHX, NWI & EMA to mainland Europe, including many *A hubs or focus cities. There is certainly good synergy for them to build a UK feeder network into Star, much as KLM do now with connecting traffic into AMS, but of course they would need a good chunk of money from any codeshare agreements with the *A members and competing with a very well established operator like KL is not an easy task - one suspects some seedcorn funding from Star to offset the losses in setting routes up would be necessary. BM also doesn't currently have a big enough fleet to support this, and certainly a highly profitable oil/gas route such as NWI-ABZ would never be pulled to allow a *A feed. For the moment, therefore, I see little prospect of any BM flights becoming mileage-earning wetleases and even less of the airline (re)-joining Star.

Anyway, to keep my ramblings vaguely on-topic, this is the link that confirms BM flights are codeshares rather than wetleases for LH, and therefore will not earn miles in M&B:
http://www.bmiregional.com/en/bottom...ack-to-bristol