bmi british midland (Nottingham East Midlands) has returned the B757-200 it had wet-leased from Astraeus (5W/London Stansted) and has replaced it with its second own A330-200 that has returned from Turkish Airlines (TK/Istanbul Atatürk). It has launched new services on its own and in cooperation with Lufthansa (LH/Frankfurt Intl) and Swiss (LX/Zurich): Birmingham-Frankfurt Intl: 3x daily A320-200 service has started on March 27 (replacing Lufthansa) London Heathrow-Agadir: 2x weekly A320-200 service starting on October 29 London Heathrow-Almaty-Amritsar: 3x weekly A330-200 service starting on October 13 London Heathrow-Baku-Bishkek: 3x weekly A321-200 service starting on October 13 (replacing routing via Almaty) London Heathrow-Basle/Mulhouse: 3x daily A319-100/A320-200 service has started on March 27 (replacing Swiss route from London City) London Heathrow-Bergen: daily A319-100/A320-200 service has started on March 27 London Heathrow-Casablanca: 4x weekly A319-100 service has started on March 27 London Heathrow-Marrakech: 3x weekly A319-100 service has started on March 28 London Heathrow-Nice: weekly A319-100/A320-200 service resuming on August 25 London Heathrow-Stavanger: daily A319-100/A320-200 service has started on March 27 Manchester-Basle/Mulhouse: daily A319-100 service has started on March 27 Manchester-Frankfurt Intl: 4x daily A320-200 service has started on March 27 (replacing Lufthansa) bmi has given up its routes from Birmingham to Aberdeen on October 29 and from London Heathrow to Glasgow Intl on March 27. bmi has signed new codeshare agreements with AZAL Azerbaijan Airlines (J2/Baku), Croatia Airlines (OU/Zagreb), Oman Air (WY/Muscat) and Ukraine International Airlines (PS/Kiev Borispol).
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