View Poll Results: Have you ever flown a bmi segment?
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201
84.81%
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Have you ever flown bmi?
Mar 31, 2010, 3:34 am
#46
Ambassador: World of Hyatt
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: UK - the nearest airport is named after a motorway !
Posts: 4,243
a few LHR-AMS in the 98-03 timeperiod, and then a single DME-LHR redemption last year. and my TXL-LHR was 'operated by' bmi, and on a BD flight number, although apparently it was an LH flight 
Mar 31, 2010, 3:49 am
#48
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: London. Edinburgh, Cornwall
Programs: BA GGL, British Midland Lifetime* Loser
Posts: 7,993
Originally Posted by stewardo
the staff have a certain charm, and the fact it seems to be run enthusiastically but not always successfully from a haunted castle by WI members is pretty cool.
You should write the marketing collateral.Put it away!
It says a lot that, for many of us on here, bmi will account for the majority of flights (and revenue) yet a much smaller fraction of annual qualifying miles.
Mar 31, 2010, 4:11 am
#50
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Phuket
Programs: SQ *Gold, BA, QR, EY, Hilton Diamond, IHG Platinum, Marriott Gold, Amex Platinum
Posts: 5,306
Mar 31, 2010, 4:31 am
#52
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Central London
Programs: BA Gold Guest List, Hilton Diamond, Marriott Platinum
Posts: 512
Used to fly the ORD route from MAN. Now use them for trips up to EDI and occasionally down to LHR when connecting, BA is full or the flight times are better.
Mar 31, 2010, 4:49 am
#53
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: BHD/DUB
Programs: BA Gold, TK*G, EI Elite
Posts: 7,622
I'm glad, or should that be sad, to say I'm in Oxon Flyer territory having flown British Midland, bmi British Midland, bmi and now British Midland International for uhhh.....a year or two. I also remember earning Gold by collecting 1200 points.
Mar 31, 2010, 4:59 am
#55
Moderator: Lufthansa Miles & More, India based airlines, India, External Miles & Points Resources
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: MUC
Programs: LH SEN
Posts: 48,446
In 2001 I bought a codeshare BD ticket online (MUC-LHR operated by LH). BD messed up my booking making it a paper ticket to be picked up at the LH ticket counter. I was already late for my flight and missed it because of that. LH put me on standby for the next flight on a friday evening and I actually made it ^
I guess that qualifies as a BD flight I experience BDs IT 5 years before I became a bmi DC addict.
Wanted to fly BD to BOM and ORD, but everytime I was about to book they cancelled the route
I guess that qualifies as a BD flight
I experience BDs IT 5 years before I became a bmi DC addict.Wanted to fly BD to BOM and ORD, but everytime I was about to book they cancelled the route
Mar 31, 2010, 5:03 am
#56
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: London, UK and Southern France
Posts: 18,405
IIRC, my first bmi flight was BFS-LHR. Since then, bmi has taken me to/from: EDI/GLA/MAN/DUB/BHD/BRU/AMS/MAD/CDG/NCE/ORD/LAS/BOM. Sadly, my bmi flights have dwindled to a trickle as the mid-haul network if of little interest to me and I tend to have switched primarily to BA for non-Irish routes.
Mar 31, 2010, 5:04 am
#57
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: BHD/DUB
Programs: BA Gold, TK*G, EI Elite
Posts: 7,622
As to bmi routes flown? they've all been shorthaul; and I can't even begin to think of the number I've been on over the years that have long since disappeared. PRG/BUD/LIN/BCN/MAD to name just a few.
Mar 31, 2010, 5:13 am
#58
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Bucks and London
Programs: BDLG, BAEC Silver, Skyteam pleb, HH Gold, Hyatt Gold, Club Carlson Gold
Posts: 337
Plenty for me.
463 sectors on the LHR-AMS-LHR route before it got canned.
Over 150 sectors on LHR-DUB-LHR.
About 30 sectors on LHR-MAN-LHR
All paid tickets
Redemptions on BMI metal to:
Barbados
Cairo
and from Chicago
Loved them all, they always got me home one way or another and the longhauls were superb.
RIP AMS you are sorely missed.
Best wishes from Singapore (another successful redemption, thank you FlyerTalk).
20-Horse
463 sectors on the LHR-AMS-LHR route before it got canned.
Over 150 sectors on LHR-DUB-LHR.
About 30 sectors on LHR-MAN-LHR
All paid tickets
Redemptions on BMI metal to:
Barbados
Cairo
and from Chicago
Loved them all, they always got me home one way or another and the longhauls were superb.
RIP AMS you are sorely missed.
Best wishes from Singapore (another successful redemption, thank you FlyerTalk).
20-Horse
Mar 31, 2010, 5:55 am
#59
Join Date: Jun 2006
Programs: BD,Skyteam,QF
Posts: 541
Only DUB-LHR, but used to be quite regular traveller on that route.
Longhaul destination is MEL, so most of my miles are earned via Singapore Airlines. Would use BD if it had more routes from Dublin. It doesn't seem practical to take 2 legs, when I can get direct flights to a destination, especially when the changeover is LHR
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Longhaul destination is MEL, so most of my miles are earned via Singapore Airlines. Would use BD if it had more routes from Dublin. It doesn't seem practical to take 2 legs, when I can get direct flights to a destination, especially when the changeover is LHR
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Mar 31, 2010, 6:03 am
#60
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: 18 nautical miles west of LHR
Programs: *A Gold; OW Emerald; HHonors Diamond; Hyatt GoldPassport Platinum; Accor Silver
Posts: 277
Many times and to many places over the years, many of which are sadly routes consigned to the past....
LHR from/to
GLA, EDI, BFS, INV, LBA, MAN, CDG, ORY, AMS, BRU, NCE, HAJ, ESB, BOM
MAN from/to
ORD
LHR from/to
GLA, EDI, BFS, INV, LBA, MAN, CDG, ORY, AMS, BRU, NCE, HAJ, ESB, BOM
MAN from/to
ORD