bmi regional set to assume two Brussels Airlines' routes

bmi regional rebrands as flybmi

bmi regional (BM, Aberdeen Dyce) has rebranded as flybmi (BM, Aberdeen Dyce), adjusting the name to the website domain used, the carrier has said in a statement.

The website and booking engine have also been updated and simplified. The carrier's new logo continues to reference the legacy of the bmi brand and has not been designed anew.

The new booking engine has been developed by Germanys' 2e Systems.

bmi regional itself was rebranded from British Midland Commuter in 2001. The carrier was a subsidiary of bmi british midland (BD, East Midlands) prior to the acquisition of the airline by British Airways in 2012. Subsequently, BA did not retain ownership of bmi regional and sold it to Sector Aviation Holdings. Nowadays, flybmi is owned by Airline Investments Limited which also controls Loganair (LM, Glasgow Int'l).

UK's Loganair to add maiden regional jets in 2019

Loganair (LM, Glasgow Int'l) is planning to add at least two regional jets in Summer 2019 in order to launch new services from Glasgow Int'l to continental Europe, Managing Director Jonathan Hinkles has said during a conference at the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce.

"It is a good opportunity for us to increase travel between Europe and the Highlands and Islands for business and high-end tourism, using Glasgow as a hub. There are major European centres that are not currently served from Glasgow," Hinkles has been quoted as saying by The Scotsman.

The new aircraft will be Embraer Regional Jets transferred from Loganair's sister carrier bmi regional. The aircraft will be first deployed on the Glasgow-Stornoway route prior to the commencement of European services.

Loganair currently operates solely turboprop aircraft, including one DHC-6-300, two DHC-6-400s, two Do328-100s, five Saab 2000s, two Saab 340As, twelve Saab 340Bs, two Saab 340(F)s and two BN-2s. It currently wet-leases a single ERJ-145 from bmi.

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Poland's Lublin to regain domestic ops with LOT

LOT Polish Airlines (LO, Warsaw Chopin) has announced it will launch a new service connecting Lublin with Warsaw Chopin on September 3, 2018. The route will become Lublin's maiden domestic service.

The service will be operated 5x weekly with Dash 8-400 equipment.

Lublin will become LOT's tenth domestic destination, after its main hub at Warsaw Chopin and the regional airports at Szczecin, Gdansk, Poznan, Wroclaw, Katowice, Kraków, Zielona Góra, and Rzeszow.

The airport in eastern Poland used to have domestic connectivity to Gdansk and Wroclaw with EuroLOT (K2, Warsaw Chopin) prior to the regional specialist's bankruptcy in 2015. Currently, the airport sees exclusively international services operated by Wizz Air, Ryanair, LOT, Small Planet Airlines Polska, bmi regional, and easyJet.