BMED and BMI
Feb 3, 2007 | 8:17 am
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BMED and BMI
Sorry for cross posting, but this thread is probably pretty important to the people of this group.
http://flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=655444
http://flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=655444
Feb 3, 2007 | 9:21 am
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Feb 3, 2007 | 12:56 pm
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Looks like T5 didn't have room for all those KJ planes :-). An interesting change in Oneworld topology, as most of the KJ cities are served by the new OW airlines (RJ and MA), along with AY and IB. So it is a move away from LHR as a hub, and to AMM, BUD, HEL and even MAD for those routes. Presumably BA won't try to serve the KJ cities (some of these were mainline BA routes and given to KJ as they were not profitable). It does look like BA is deliberately shrinking in some markets (selling BACON and now dropping KJ). GB is presumably safe, as that is a political connection.
Feb 3, 2007 | 3:57 pm
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Feb 3, 2007 | 8:04 pm
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BA cleverly picked the "end of timetable" date for ending the KJ tie-in, which makes life much simpler. Not sure that there is much danger of flights being dropped individually prior to the end of the agreement (BD seems to indicate that it will initially operate all the routes in exactly the same way as before, and the airline was profitable so no hint of cost cutting). Any open-dated tickets wouldn't be able to book a "post-breakup" date, unless an agent makes a mistake (which I suppose has been known to happen).