BMI is to continue its brand new Manchester ” Las Vegas service through the summer reducing flights from three times a week to twice weekly. Speaking in Las Vegas new CEO Nigel Turner (see ABTN 1 November) said that advanced bookings were strong enough for the airline to commit to an all year around service instead of the seasonal operation originally conceived. bmi operates an Airbus A330 on the route with economy, new economy (premium economy to everyone else) and its very competitive business class 2 + 2 + 2 setup. With Virgin also increasing its services from Gatwick (see below) the British are definitely making their mark in the ”City of Sin”. Enevitably Elvis had to find his way to Manchester for the send off but what our photograph also shows up is that bmi too do have the Union flag on the tailfin, albeit in a lighter shade of blue
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