Bmi has announced 17 new routes following the acquisition of the BMED network in March this year.
The new routes are to be launched on October 28 and include Addis Ababa in Ethiopia, Aleppo in Syria, Almaty in Kazakhstan, Amman in Jordan, Ankara in Turkey, Baku in Azerbaijan, Beirut in Lebanon, Bishkek in Kyrgystan, Cairo in Egypt Dakar in Senegal, Damascus in Syria, Ekaterinburg in Russia, Freetown in Sierra Leone, Khartoum in Sudan, Tbilisi in Georgia, Tehran in Iran and Yerevan in Armenia.
Bmi also has expansion plans for its mid-haul routes from next year after the first of its additional aircraft are delivered as part of a $750 million aircraft acquisition programme. Bmi Chief Executive Nigel Turner said: “These new routes represent the single largest expansion of the bmi brand in the history of the airline, and mark our continuing transition into a truly global airline.
Turner added: “We will serve 36 destinations from Heathrow this winter, with an in-flight product that provides the highest level of service to business and leisure travellers alike. It is a network that will particularly enhance transfer traffic as all 36 destinations will be served from Terminal 1”.
