BREAKING NEWS is that bmi will suspend its six times a week service from Manchester to Washington Dulles at the end of the month. The service was launched in 2001 and this summer has been operated by a leased-in Boeing 757 aircraft, the Airbus A330 originally used on the route now based at Heathrow operating to Mumbai and Riyadh. BMI says that Washington does not enjoy the same wide range of onward connections that has made the bmi Manchester ” Chicago service so successful.
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