this one actually must win the award for the slackest turnaround scheduling

BD125 1700LHR 1820DUB
The aircraft then sits on the ground for 3 1/4 hours before returning as
BD126 2135DUB 2255LHR

Nobody is going to want fly on BD126 on a Friday with that timetable - far too late and useless for connections (and the flight before it is 8hrs earlier!) .. so they're going to end up with a very expensive aircraft sitting around Dublin for over 3 hours on a Friday evening (when it should be full of high yielding business travellers who will now all be on Aer Lingus) and then flying back pretty empty to LHR

If there was a self destruct button around it seems that the scheduling department are pressing it pretty hard ... I know there's slot constraints etc. but still !

So people dont fly on the weekends with BMI? I did CO EWR-LHR last Sunday, in at 7.30am and the first connecting flight isnt until 1pm!!!! Does BD just want to send all the traffic to EI and they dont care?? Incidentally, the BMI lounge is quite nice!

Sorry! :confused: I know it's early, but you must have been in some other lounge. Yes, the bmi lounge location, view over the apron, and colour scheme is nice. The decor and furnishings are pretty much 10 years old, and the lounge refit that I think was due in 2010 was cancelled (GoldCircle will remember when). Apart from beer, coffee and soft drinks, the supplies are pretty poor.

It's better than the Anna Livia lounge across the way, but it's not a patch on some lounges I've been to.

Indeed its still better than some and in fairness it has aged well compared to others but like you say the supplies are dire. I get my coffee at the Chocolate lounge or at Butlers before heading in usually.

Hope nobody minds me hijacking this thread for (continuing) a slightly off-topic -but utterly critical - question:
Will the DUB lounge have cornflakes out at around 9am.....?
(risk of not getting breakfast after an early bus ride from Belfast is the 'utterly critical' issue here!)

Do they ever have cornflakes ? (I don't like the things so wouldn't have noticed perhaps !) ... The Breakfast offering there a few weeks ago was Kelloggs Special K bars and fruit as far as I could see.

I was in the lounge last Friday morning, arriving just before 9, but having just had breakfast at the hotel, I didn't look for breakfast items in the lounge. I did spot that they had some cake slices out, and there was orange juice - the Special K bars escaped my attention and I didn't see Cornflakes at all.

I have never seen cornflakes.

There is fruit, the special k bars, some biscuits and cake. Occasionaly there are (were) alpen bars and pre-packed croissant things but I have not seen those in some time.

Do not rely on BD lounge in DUB for breakfast, unless you want a more liquid start to the day....all the booze is there :)

I don't believe they do cornflakes. Just picture it, and you will realise what you didn't see..... trails of the things on the table as they spill out of boxes or dispensers, drips of milk etc. There aren't enough staff in the lounge to tidy up successfully after cornflakes;)

All those are still there, at least they were on Monday.

I was talking about the BD lounge in LHR. I spent 4 hours in it after my flight. 'Breakfast' was available for a while which consisted of cereal, croissants, etc and the usual snacks in the lounges. Nice little extra was the take away cups for tea/coffee.

Mindnumbing.....
 

Schedule change strikes again! Booked on bd123 for September, scheduled for 11.05 departure - just received a schedule change, with flight moving 40 minutes earlier. Not that big a deal, but realised that there's now a bd125 departure at the 11.05 slot I'd booked....

Didn't seem to strike bmi that rather than moving me to an earlier flight it would have been easier to just tell me my flight number had changed. Plus same issue on my bd124 return of course.

That being said, ICC have been very helpful and moved me to the later flight at the times I originally booked for ^ (just awaiting my email confirmation).

We're flying LHR-DUB in May and also got our flights changed - like you, we're on the 1025 now after booking the 1105.

Neither here nor there for us, but like you say I'm baffled about why they didn't just keep us on the original flight with the new number.

And we're off again .. For a booking in April they've now sent 7 mails and counting this morning advising of yet another change (one would do lads)

Looks like on LHR-DUB on a Friday in the Summer timetable you've now got 5 flights 0700, two within 30 mins of each other at around 1100, then 1700 and a ludicrously late 2200 departure

Gone the useful 1930ish departure

Sigh...