bmibaby

• Birmingham
• East Midlands

Bmibaby was a British low-cost airline based in Castle Donnington and a subsidiary of bmi.

History

The airline was ( briefly bmi) founded on 17 January 2002 as a subsidiary of Deutsche Lufthansa and British Midland Airways and lifted on 22 March 2002 on its maiden flight from East Midlands to Malaga from.

Since June 2005, the airline also offered seats on compounds of the parent company bmi to serve more airports within Europe can. However, bmibaby was unlike bmi - who also resigned in May 2012 again - never a member or partner of the Star Alliance.

By 2006, bmibaby operate another base at the airport Durham Tees Valley, which was abandoned.

In November 2009, bmibaby announced that as part of a required by the current difficult market environment restructuring fired up to 158 employees and the fleet is to be reduced from 17 to 12 machines.

In October 2011, the bases in Cardiff and Manchester were closed in favor of a newly opened base in Belfast.

The end of 2011 the owner Lufthansa initiated the sale of the parent company bmi to IAG, but bmibaby to be separated from bmi and sold separately. In February 2012, an agreement was concluded with a hitherto unnamed British company that bmibaby would take until the summer of 2012 by bmi. Soon after, however, reported that several potential buyers would not submit a bid and the buyers search further would run. In May 2012, it was announced that from June 2012 a total of 21 routes, including all the goals from Belfast City, no longer be operated. The remaining routes ended announced on 9 September 2012 which bmibaby stopped operating on this date as early as May, 2012. Competitors such as Jet2.com and Flybe have announced the acquisition of several routes of bmibaby.

Objectives

Bmibaby flew recently from their bases at the airports Belfast City, East Midlands and Birmingham to a total of 36 cities and holiday destinations within Europe, such as Paris, Prague, Venice, Menorca, Geneva and Glasgow. The only goals in the German-speaking countries, both the Cologne / Bonn, which was flown from East Midlands airport until May 2012. Since autumn 2010, Munich was served by East Midlands and Cardiff - these routes, however, were also reinstated.

Fleet

When operating setting in September 2012, the fleet of 14 aircraft from bmibaby was with a mean age of 16.2 years: