Bmi’s flights to Casablanca will end on October 28
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Services to Dammam, Bishkek, Yereven and Khartoum, Amritsar and Casablanca to be axed following takeover by IAG.
British Airways is to scrap several Bmi routes following the takeover of the airline by BA’s parent company IAG.
As part of a second phase of changes to BA’s winter schedule, the services will be suspended after the summer due to “poor revenue performance”.
Bmi’s flights to Dammam will cease on September 16, those to Bishkek, Yereven and Khartoum on October 1, while services to Amritsar and Casablanca will end on October 28.
The airline’s flights to Riyadh and Jeddah will also end on September 16, although BA already operates flights to both cities.
BA’s Cairo and Moscow routes will continue as normal, but Bmi’s services to the cities will end on September 5 and October 12, respectively.
A number of other Bmi services, including those to Dublin, Almaty, Tbilisi, Baku, Beirut and Freetown will be integrated into BA’s schedule.
BA also announced that it will increase the frequency of flights to Gibraltar from seven to nine a week – with additional flights operating at the weekend – and to Tel Aviv from 14 to 20 per week.
The move follows an announcement in May that Bmi’s flights to Bergen, Nice, Vienna, Stavanger, Hanover, Agadir and Marrakesh would be adopted by BA.
Bmi was purchased by IAG in April, following a period of financial decline.
Bmi’s aircraft are currently being converted into BA livery, a process which is expected to take until next year.
Any passengers affected by the cancellations will be offered a full refund, while all frequent fliers with Bmi will have their air miles transferred to BA’s equivalent programme.
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