flybmi has gone under this evening. They operated a number of flights as codeshares for LH and SN, mostly out of BRS and MUC.

It probably brings to a final end the bmi saga, which has been intertwined with Lufthansa over the years.

In the short term, it cuts a few places off from the Star Alliance hubs (again). BRS, EMA, NCL won't have any flights to BRU, and BRS loses virtually all its connections to Germany (FRA, MUC, HAM, DUS).

My experience of bmi was 99% positive, with generally great crews. Their major problem was (imo) a dangerously high rate of cancellations.

If anything good could come out of this, it might be LH coming back to BRS. (SN are due to revert to operating BRS-BRU with at AR85 at end of March, so I guess they may bring that forward).