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While bmi haemorrhaged money on the routes, Virgin expects most of the domestic passengers to feed into its global long-haul network.
It has taken over the slots taken from British Airways by competition authorities after bmi was swallowed up by the national carrier.
Because now the list of those inconvenienced by the shenanigans includes not only the passengers of British Airways, the terminal's sole carrier, but also those flying with Delta, Air France, KLM, bmi and many other airlines.BA had intended to move most of its long-haul services from Terminal 4 to Terminal 5 on April 30th.
Austin Reid, chief executive of bmi British Midland, reckons the world's airlines will lose $7.5 billion this year on top of last year's $11 billion.Back in September, Europe's airlines grounded aircraft, dropped flights and started cutting staff costs.
In particular, he wants an end to the archaic rules governing market access and the restrictions on foreign capital that limit the ability of airlines to raise equity from international capital markets and inhibit cross-border mergers (other than in the European Union, that is, where Lufthansa of Germany this week moved to take over bmi , a British carrier).
More consolidation in the airline industry beckoned when Germany's Lufthansa said it would take majority control in bmi , a British carrier.
But the two carriers are still considering joint-marketing by sharing flight-codes and using bmi 's European routes to feed traffic to Virgin's long-haul network.All this was enough to whip up speculation about a possible BA bid for bmi.
Though 220m flat-panel televisions were sold in 2011, none of the firms making LCD screens is profitable because of overcapacity in the industry.International Airlines Group, the parent company of British Airways, won its bid to buy bmi , giving it an even greater share of the runway slots at Heathrow.
The latest convert to DIY low-cost is bmi British Midland, which later this month launches bmibaby (which sounds more like a 1960s pop hit than an airline).Lufthansa briefly had a low-cost domestic service known as Lufthansa Express, but it was discontinued.
Virgin Atlantic is one: its bid to buy bmi , Lufthansa's money-losing British offshoot, seems to have failed, with BA's parent company the likely buyer.
Britain's other big carrier (bmi , better known under its old name of British Midland) is a private company which keeps its results to itself; but it is in effect a subsidiary of Lufthansa, secure in the mighty Star Alliance, and robust enough to weather any downturn.
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The initialism "BMI" functions as a noun or adjective to refer to Body Mass Index. As Ludwig AI states, this term refers to health, fitness, and nutrition. Examples show it used in contexts ranging from airline industry analysis to health-related articles.
Expression frequency: Very common
