Bmi makes contingency plans for BA strike disruption
Bmi has unveiled contingency plans to help carry any passengers caught up in the threatened industrial action by British Airways cabin crew.
The airline plans to increase its capacities at Heathrow by placing larger aircraft on existing flights and will also increase frequencies by utilising take-off and landing slots created by any BA cancellations.
BA cabin crew are holding a three-day strike on January 29-31 and plan to hold two more on February 5-7 and 12-14.
Bmi chief executive officer Nigel Turner said: “Air travellers have had to endure two periods of considerable disruption in the last six months alone at Heathrow. On both of these occasions bmi pulled out all the stops to minimise inconvenience to our customers as opposed to total route cancellations by our major competitor.
“We are determined that during any period of BA flight cancellations we will get passengers to their destination on the services of bmi wherever possible. Where practical we will be opening up more capacity on existing services to accommodate additional demand for seats.”
Bmi serves Manchester, Aberdeen, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Brussels, Paris, Amsterdam, Moscow, and Lyon from Heathrow, routes which are also served by BA. It also operates to Durham Tees Valley while BA operates to Newcastle.
In addition, bmi serves Venice and Dublin from Heathrow, which are served by BA from Gatwick.
By Bev Fearis
Bev
Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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