BMI Baby Airlines > Reviews

Advantages: Fly from local airports, low fares if booked early, friendly staff
Disadvantages: It could be me but the planes seemed old

...out of East Midlands airport, BMI Baby found themselves a second passenger hub out of Cardiff Wales Airport, with the powers that be indicating an increase in passenger numbers of some 1m per year – the outcome has been that Cardiff have built a new car-park and re-organised their whole set up, and doubled short term parking charges in the process, but back to the topic in hand. WHO IS BMI BABY? They are the baby budget airline of BMI, more commonly ... Read review

Advantages: Cheap, Easy to Book
Disadvantages: Only within Europe, Cleanliness of Plane

...and also found flights with BMI Baby! Now I’ve flown with BMI or British Midlands before and never had any qualms at all about the level of service so learning we were flying with an off shoot of their company for almost half the price didn’t bother me one bit! BMI Baby are the little sister almost of British Midland and endorse themselves as “the airline with tiny fairs” similar to other budget airlines like Easy Jet and No Frills Airline. Their ... Read review

Advantages: Cheap and convenient
Disadvantages: No thrills at all

...host of other adverts the bmi page is simple with well spaced text and links to the various booking options of flights, hotels and car hire. Most importantly at the top of the page is a simple search function with drop down options for the departure ad arrival airport of your choice alongside calendars to choose you flight dates. Once you have selected the number of passengers traveling then you hit the search option to see what is available. One ... Read review

Advantages: Convenient, good prices, good planes
Disadvantages: Not much leg room, need to book well in advance

BMI Baby I am fortunate enough to live within easy driving distance of Manchester Airport and as such am able to take advantage of the increasing number of cheaper flights on offer from Manchester. I recently flew from Manchester to Prague with BMI Baby (my first trip with them) and this is my opinion!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Booking? I booked directly using the BMI website (www.bmibaby.com) which is very easy to use ... Read review

Advantages: Good value for money
Disadvantages: Late on return, no veggie food

Having been enticed by the promise of 'free flights' in the summer sale, I booked myself a trip to Belfast. I'm a nervous flier but decided to take the plunge, and I have to say that, overall, I was pleased with the service. PRICE: I booked during the summer sale, so perhaps this isn't indicative of usual prices, but the promise of free flights was certainly welcome to this student! Obviously airport taxes and charges can be quite steep, however, ... Read review

Advantages: None
Disadvantages: Expensive Flight for a Budget Airline, Cancellations, Damp Seats, No Refreshments, Poor Customer Service, No Communication

...to London, in fact another BMI flight had departed 20minutes before our flight was scheduled to depart. Me and my party were left stranded at the airport. So we decided to speak to Check-in staff, they were busy as expected, but it was a Sunday Evening so could have been a lot worse. However what happened next was appaling. We were made to wait in a queue for three hours, no refreshements were offered and no communication was provided to any ... Read review

Advantages: Cheap flights from local airport, good customer service
Disadvantages: only short haul, limited numbers of flights

...away but getting on a BMI baby plane brings back memories of many good weekends away. BMI baby first started offering flights from East Midlands airport in March 2002. Within their first hour of trading they had booked a record number of flights and they were gaining plenty of publicity. In July 2002 they added Cardiff airport as their second Uk base becoming the biggest airline operating out of Cardiff. By this year they had progressed so well ... Read review

Advantages: Cheap, efficient service
Disadvantages: Great if you live near East Midlands airport, limited if you don't

...flying. There was a link to BMI baby.com so I gave it a go. The site was very easy to use. On the home page it gave the option to type in the dates of travel you required, destination and number of people in your group. Click the search button and it will find the cheapest fare they have. Imagine my jaw drop when the price they quoted was £2 each! You get to choose from the flights leaving and returning on your specified day and you can move onto ... Read review

Advantages: Easy to book online, can choose seats
Disadvantages: NONE YET

MY EXPERIENCE. I went on holiday, on the 20th july to 27th july, So now my report is complete on this company. SO on with the review........................... PART 1.........Booking the flight online. I found this the quickest and easiest way to book, no getting hassle from the assistant in the travel agent, and no hanging around waiting for one to become free either. Id heard good things about this company, and as id already got my ... Read review

Advantages: Cheap, Fun & frugal, quiter hub airports
Disadvantages: Limited UK airports, no fallbacks

...are also a subsidiary of BMI (the UK?s second largest "full service" airline) They have been created in January 2002 in similar vein to the other existing budget airlines - and like them strive to set out their particular brand and ethos of giving great value flights. They currently fly to 12 countries and serve 26 destinations. Weekly flights total 313 give or take. Being a young company - their staff are genuinely enthusiastic and seem eager ... Read review

Advantages: Ultra-cheap, friendly staff, OK planes
Disadvantages: basic service+delays, but for the money its all very good!

BMI baby are one of the many 'low-cost' airlines that fly to many destinations across Europe. The flight that I took was from East Midlands Airport in Leicestershire UK to Charles de Gaulle Airport at the centre of Paris. It was scheduled to take approximately 50mins and was booked as part of a package holiday to disneyland paris with Ledger travel (owned by Airtours). (I cannott, therefore, comment on the booking of the flight, as the travel agent ... Read review

Advantages: great prices
Disadvantages: only 14/15 planes - if one doesn`t run you`re in trouble

...return flights to Jersey with BMI Baby. They were recommended to the sight by a number of friends who had gone to Prague for £1.99, etc etc. Although they have access to the internet, they haven`t got a printer, so I was given the honour of booking the tickets. After careful analysis and costings, we chose a time when a) my daughter was at school (and therefore unable to pull the plug) and b) my youngest was asleep and therefore unable to bite/annoy ... Read review