BMI to Take Over More Lufthansa Flights

Apparently the Lufthansa owned BMI is now set to take over more of its parent’s UK routes. Starting on March 28th, BMI will be entirely responsible for the operations of Lufthansa’s three times a day service from London Heathrow to Cologne.

BMI will also be operating an additional service from Lufthansa between Heathrow and Hamburg. This will allow Lufthansa to operate four times a day on this important route. This new route, with a departure time of 7:15am is, of course, aimed more towards the business market. BMI will also operate all three daily flights on behalf of Lufthansa between Heathrow and Berlin Tegal. There will be a fourth daily service aimed at business travelers as well.

All of the flights will be operated by A319′s, and BMI will be proving a business class cabin. This is a smart move since a lot of the routes are aimed at business passengers anyway. The British airline will adopt Lufthansa’s policy of not selling the middle seat of three to give a 2-2 business class

BMI is already currently operating a number of other routes to and from Heathrow on behalf of other Lufthansa group carriers. The British carrier will soon operate between Heathrow and Vienna, alongside Austrian Airlines. Other BMI services for the Lufthansa group include a shared flight schedule with Swiss International and Lufthansa Italia out of Heathrow to Geneva and Milan Malpensa respectively.

It is not yet known what other routes, if any, BMI will operate for Lufthansa after this. Right now there are still a number of other routes that could be passed on to the airline. However, Lufthansa says that all of the switches are to better serve their customers.