ajamieson

With last night's end of flights to Leeds Bradford, Durham Tees Valley and Jersey – some of them after decades of service – the list of former destinations is getting as long as the roll-call of current routes. And arguably more interesting, too.

There have been a few, from the sublime (Chicago, Mumbai) to the utterly ridiculous (Knock). Have I missed any?

Former bmi and bmi regional destinations:

Aleppo, Syria - Damascus, Syria
Alicante, Spain – London Heathrow, UK
Amsterdam, Netherlands - London Heathrow, UK
Ankara, Turkey – London Heathrow, UK
Antigua, Antigua and Barbuda – Manchester, UK
Barcelona, Spain – London Heathrow, UK
Belfast International, UK – London Heathrow, UK
Belfast International, UK - Jersey, Channel Islands
Bergen, Norway - London Heathrow, UK
Birminghan, UK - Aberdeen, UK
Birmingham, UK - Brussels, Belgium
Birmingham, UK - Frankfurt, Germany
Budapest, Hungary – London Heathrow, UK
Bridgetown, Barbados – Manchester, UK
Brussels, Belgium – Aberdeen, UK
Brussels, Belgium - London Heathrow, UK
Copenhagen, Denmark - London Heathrow, UK
Cork, Ireland - Leeds Bradford, UK
Chicago, United States – Manchester, UK
Dakar, Senegal – London Heathrow, UK
Durham Tees Valley, UK – London Heathrow, UK
Dusseldorf, Germany - Manchester, UK
Edinburgh, UK - East Midlands, UK
Edinburgh, UK - Jersey, Channel Islands
Ekaterinburg, Russia – London Heathrow, UK
Frankfurt, Germany – Birmingham, UK
Frankfurt, Germany – Edinburgh, UK
Frankfurt, Germany – London Heathrow, UK
Glasgow, UK - East Midlands, UK
Inverness, UK – London Heathrow, UK
Jersey, Channel Islands – London Heathrow, UK
Kiev, Ukraine - London Heathrow, UK
Knock, Ireland – Glasgow, UK
Kristiansand, Norway – Aberdeen, UK
Las Vegas, United States – Manchester, UK
Leeds Bradford, UK – London Heathrow, UK
Lille, France – Leeds Bradford, UK
London City, UK – Leeds Bradford, UK
Lyon, France – London Heathrow, UK
Madrid, Spain – London Heathrow, UK
Malaga, Spain – London Heathrow, UK
Milan Linate, Italy – London Heathrow, UK
Mumbai, India – London Heathrow, UK
Naples, Italy – London Heathrow, UK
Nice, France – London Heathrow, UK
Palma Mallorca, Spain - London Heathrow, UK
Paris CDG, France - East Midlands, UK
Paris CDG, France – Leeds Bradford, UK
Paris CDG, France – London Heathrow, UK
Prague, Czech Republic – London Heathrow, UK
Rome, Italy – London Heathrow, UK
Stornoway, UK - Edinburgh, UK
Tel Aviv, Israel - London Heathrow, UK
Tenerife North, Spain – London Heathrow, UK
Tenerife South, Spain – London Heathrow, UK
Toronto, Canada – Manchester, UK
Toulouse, France – Manchester, UK
Venice, Italy - London Heathrow
Warsaw, Poland – London Heathrow, UK
Washington, United States – Manchester, UK
Zurich, Switzerland - London Heathrow, UK

Routes on bmi regional announced but never started:

Amsterdam, Netherlands – Southampton, UK
Brussels, Belgium – Luton, UK
Munich, Germany – Edinburgh, UK

Soon to be former bmi and bmi regional destinations:
???



Found these brilliant threads on Lille and Luton

FlyingOnceMore

Budapest, Hungary – London Heathrow, UK
Frankfurt, Germany – London Heathrow, UK

BHDBOY

There was a Belfast Aldergrove to Jersey Service which operated for many summer seasons with the Fokker 70s and 100s. Also Aldergrove (and later Belfast City) to East Midlands operated with Saab 340s and then Embraer jets before the route moved back to Aldergrove, operated by bmibaby.

According to this shot on A.net, there was also a LHR-ZRH service in the mid 90s: http://www.airliners.net/photo/Briti...-0100)/0992966

Oxon Flyer

Zurich, Switzerland – London Heathrow, UK

Oxon Flyer

Brussels, Belgium - Birmingham, UK

ajamieson

Thank you. I'd also forgotten about East Mids routes that have gone (gone to Baby, I know, but gone altogether as far as we are concerned!)

KenF

You can add MAN-DUS as well, it went in the LH "All your Germany routes are belong to us" Star Alliance merger.

Mind you adding - MAN-<Anywhere> to the list seems to becoming the reality

Ken.

Willard the Bear - But, but, how am I going to start my trips if there are no more flights from MAN. "please sir, can we move to LON ?" - No! - Ken.

ajamieson

Indeed.

You would think some of these Brussels routes such as ABZ might become viable again given what LH is planning for Brussels Airlines and its arrival in Star. Good mix of long-haul destinations from BRU that would otherwise involve LHR or BA.

FlyingOnceMore

I swear Faro, Portugal was mainline at one time but was it LHR? EMA? or both?

BrianDromey

Are you sure Knock - LBA was not
Cork, Ireland (ORK) - Leeds Bradford, UK (LBA) ?
Served by bmiRegional ERJ's.

Oxon Flyer

Did Glasgow to Knock ever start ?

ajamieson

You're right. It was the march of the left-footers from Glasgow that inspired Knock, not LBA.

Has LBA-ORK gone as well?

Oxon Flyer

Yep.

But the bmi route planning executive committee continues to meet as normal.

Kevincm

ajamieson... that picture indicates that there's planning

I thought they used the FA Cup tombola machine to help decide route pairs?

FlyingOnceMore

You can pick over the 1990's here and this decade, to 2007, here

Looking around in webarchive you find, in 2000, London Stansted was in the booking engine. I don't remember what that was about. Anyone?