BMI to Take Over More Lufthansa Flights

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

BMI will also be operating an additional service for Lufthansa between Heathrow and Hamburg. Lufthansa will now operate four times a day on this important route. BMI will keep operating all three daily flights on behalf of Lufthansa between Heathrow and Berlin Tegal. I'm told there will be a fourth daily service added.

I have taken the Berlin - LHR route before operated by BMI and they only way you can tell it is not Lufthansa is the outside paint has BMI marking, and the crew are in BMI threads. The cabin for many of these BMI A319s have Lufthansa seats installed. There service is 100% Lufthansa.

All of the flights will be operated by BMI A319 aircraft, and BMI will be have a business class cabin on all these flights. 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. BMI will soon operate between Heathrow and Vienna, with Austrian Airlines. Other BMI services for the Lufthansa group include a shared flight schedule with Swiss International to Geneva and Lufthansa Italia to Milan Malpensa, both from LHR.

It is not yet known what other routes, if any, BMI will operate for Lufthansa after this. Could this be the signs of the New Lufthansa UK? Renaming BMI, and have BMI operate most Lufthansa group flights out of LHR, and domestic UK flights? Just like Lufthansa Italia is doing out of Milan Malpensa? I think so, even if there is not a name change..

Side note: What is Lufthansa Italia? - Lufthansa Italia S.p.A is a wholly owned subsidiary of German airline Deutsche Lufthansa based in Milan, Italy. The airline started operations on 2 February 2009 and now serves eight major European cities and three destinations within Italy with a fleet of eight Airbus A319 aircraft. More from here