British Midland Airways - BD

Advantages: good leg room, efficient service, excellent prices, on-line booking, loyalty points through diamond club
Disadvantages: Need to book early for best prices, flight times may change, changes may be restricted to lowest far tickets

...first flew with BMI (aka British Midland) some 17 years ago just before my daughter became a twinkle in my eye, I did a return flight to the Schipol, enjoying a full breakfast en-route, accompanied by my first ever taste of champagne. Fast forward 16 years, and the need arose to book flights to Madrid to visit my sister in law. Flights to this part of Spain are still relatively few and far between except with BMI, BA and EasyJet (who I hate with ...
...at www.flybmi.com. Unlike the British Airways site, where you select your departure airport and get a free for all on destinations, at BMI you don’t have to guess the code for your destination, as each airports routes are automatically entered into the “to” menu in a drop down menu. Once you have decided your departure airport and destination select your preferred dates, up to 361 days in advance (BA is 350). Then, select the number of adults, children ... Read review

Advantages: Cheap, reliable and great customer service.
Disadvantages: None

Who are British Midland (BMI)? According to BMI’s website, www.flybmi.com, BMI are the UK’s second largest full service airline, operating over 2000 flights a week from various airports around the UK. They are based at London Heathrow airport where they have a fleet of 41 jet aircraft. They fly between numerous airports across the UK. Full details can be found at the above named website. BMI are also a member of the Star Alliance. The ...
...and London Heathrow (Easyjet and British Airways), BMI are about the same as Easyjet but when you consider the allocated seating and free drink, its way better value. I have booked a British Airways flight that cost me £68 but generally British Airways are more expensive. Check in Check-in is relatively simple. As with most airlines, you will require some form of photographic identification. At both Aberdeen and London Heathrow, BMI staff were ... Read review

Advantages: Direct flights to Las Vegas, Excellent Food, Great Service
Disadvantages: TV boxes under some seats

Back in July, my husband and I decided to take an adult's only holiday to Las Vegas. We thought we should have a bit of couple time to recharge our relationship and have a bit of fun. However, we didn't want to pay an arm and leg for it. We decided to use my husband's Star Alliance points and fly economy class from Manchester to Las Vegas for free (plus tax of course). ~Booking~ We used the online booking system to book our flights. The system ...
...the process and the usage of points. However, there was no problem with the booking of the flights and were even given the option to choose our seats. We had to pay for the taxes which came to £104 each. We thought that was a fantastic deal as those flights were showing up at over £800 each. The points required to fly free in economy was 45,000 per person. There are a variety of options where you can use points and do partial payments as well. We ... Read review

Advantages: Cheap
Disadvantages: See op!

BMI is the UK's second biggest airline, with some 2,000 scheduled flights a week serving some 10 different countries with 28 destinations. BMI mainly do the short haul flights such as Heathrow - Paris, Manchester - Amsterdam and the like. as part of the star alliance group you could easily plan a trip to the US to feeder airports such as Chicago, Washington or Boston from either Manchester or Heathrow. But on the whole BMI is better know for it's ...
...sets itself up to be an innovative airline claiming many firsts such as vegetarian catering on it's domestic flights, internet booking and reservation of flights and a fore runner in the pets travel scheme. BMI has won many awards over the years such as best business class airline, best domestic airline etc. Prior to my going to the US from Heathrow last May I assumed that I'd just travel down to London on the train the day before. This then meant ... Read review

Advantages: Friendly staff, good service
Disadvantages: It's an airline

...(April 02), we flew with British Midland. This was booked as part of a package with accommodation and BMI was the carrier. Check-in at Edinburgh airport was fine - in fact it wasn't very busy at all as WE (read I) had misread the details and were among the last half dozen or so people to check-in. Consequently our seats were separated by the aisle. ***** ***** "It's your own fault for getting the times wrong and being too mean to pay a few measly ...
..."Yes dear", I said. "Now we won't be able to sit together", she pointed out. "Every cloud has a silver lining." thought I. ***** ***** This left us with 2 hours to kill before our flight; ample time to have a coffee at a well known chain, or have a beer at a well known chain or buy something at a well known chain. If only I had needed a pair of socks, or maybe a tie. There was a slight delay of 30 minutes on the flight of because of 'technical reasons'. ... Read review