Bmi Purchase Boosts British Airways Domestic Services

British Airways' winter 2012 schedule, beginning on October 28, 2012, has been unveiled, with UK regions set to benefit thanks to parent company IAG's purchase of bmi, the carrier said The airline will add extra frequencies and use bigger aircraft on flights to Scotland enabling it to offer nearly 27,000 more seats a week between London and Scotland. This includes two extra flights a day between London Heathrow and Edinburgh and two extra flights per day between Heathrow and Aberdeen.

In addition British Airways is also starting a three-per-day service between London City and Aberdeen on September 24 to connect the two business hubs. From December 9, British Airways will start four flights per day between Heathrow and Leeds Bradford, connecting Yorkshire with the airline's extensive global route network at Heathrow and increasing consumer choice in the North of England. The airline said it has already taken over bmi's six daily flights to Belfast, and will be launching a new timetable of seven flights a day between London and the Northern Irish capital on October 28. A new London City to Isle of Man route has also recently launched. At the time of EU approval for the bmi deal, IAG committed to launching new flights to important trading nations and delivering on that, British Airways is to begin flying six times a week to Seoul in South Korea from December 2, 2012.

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