Airline Code [BMA]
View More bmi British Midland News
bmi, London Heathrows second largest airline, announced on 06-Nov-07 it is to launch operations to Dammam in Saudi Arabia. The plans were revealed following the start of daily direct services from Heathrow to Cairo. The news comes at the end of a week when bmi introduced 17 new routes, the largest ever expansion of its route network.
The new Dammam service, set to begin in early 2008, will operate three times a week on a wide-bodied Airbus A330 aircraft and is expected to build on the success of flights to bmi’s existing Saudi destinations – Riyadh, which launched in September 2005, and Jeddah in April 2006.
In the past week bmi has launched services to: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Aleppo, Syria; Almaty, Kazakhstan; Amman, Jordan; Ankara, Turkey; Baku, Azerbaijan; Beirut, Lebanon; Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan; Cairo, Egypt; Dakar, Senegal; Damascus, Syria; Ekaterinburg, Russia; Freetown, Sierra Leone; Khartoum, Sudan; Tbilisi, Georgia; Tehran, Iran; Yerevan, Armenia.
|
bmi to launch services from London Heathrow to Dammam
