BMI, the Star Alliance carrier, which claims to be the UK's second largest full service scheduled airline, is launching daily Heathrow flights to Alicante and Venice on 12 April. Both these destinations are currently not served from the world”s busiest international airport. Operating out of Terminal 1 the services will be flown by two class Airbus A320 aircraft. BMI now serves 19 destinations from Heathrow and holds 14% of total slots available. In another move the airline”s regional division has caused an uproar on the UK”s eastern coast by announcing the introduction of a four times daily Embraer jet service linking Norwich and Aberdeen in direct competition with Eastern Airways, who have carefully natured an identical operation, the airline”s only pure jet service. Eastern recently took over much of BA”s regional turboprop operation, which was sold to the national airline by BMi. The airline is also using a 50-seat EMB 145 jet for another new service, this time linking Leeds Bradford daily with Copenhagen with the introduction due on 7 April.
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