barrylynch

There have been issues with BMI and United before. Last year United oversold the seats to ORD and we missed our BMI flight to the UK . Re-booking was a nightmare , neither company talked to each other as as you say we had seats all over the plane my 9year old girl was assigend a seat alone in the middle of 3 . So yes for me any mixed flights were bad but i have flown them hundreds of times over the last 7 years and thankfully i can count on one hand any big issues.( this one was the worst).
For me the planes we new and clean and the service was good , this year i brought my wife a 40th Birthday gift on board as it was her birthday the morning we were arriving in the UK , BMI helped mr deliver the gift in the bottom of a champaign glass and provide the bottle free along with a sing song of happy Birthday.

garrettciaran

I always use US Airways, Philly to Manchester, then Aer Lingus to Dublin. Still think they are shooting themselves in the foot by cancelling flights from Manchester, I flew BMI once it was a terrific flight and excellent food.

Scouse Express

As Manc said, American still flies 767s on Manchester - Chicago O'Hare, every day.

Aer Lingus offers Chicago - Dublin w/connections to several UK Airports.


Jim.

WelshDoll

I was disappointed to hear that BMI were cancelling the MAN-ORD route as I had always been happy with their service, much better aircraft than BA 's prehistoric Boeing that was used on the JFK-MAN route last month when I visited home.
It is still possible to fly direct from JFK to Manchester with Delta who operate a code share with Air France so that is the one I will have to use from now on, at least till that one gets given the boot too. I wonder what the impact these cuts in service will be on Manchester Airport itself.

barrylynch

Good point , though this is only one flight a day ( always full recently) they have lost others . The biggest loss recently was EXCEL airways group from T1 and also the Travel City Direct USA flights.