Bmi airline has the privilege of being the 2nd largest airline at Heathrow airport in London, which is one of the busiest and best connected air ports of the world. From this main hub of airline bmi flights are operated to the destinations of Europe, UK, Central Asia, Middle East and Africa. Bmi airline also has the honor of being the member of Star Alliance, which is a group of 21 international airlines. They offer world wide network to their customers and a very smooth integrated travel experience for their passengers. The group of Star Alliance is offering their services to more than 912 destinations in 159 countries with the help of more than 16,500 daily flights schedule. Bmi flights are equipped with latest state of art technology which provides facilities to customers that include online booking, e-ticketing, internet and self check-in at airports and a very smooth and speedy pre-flight experience. Along with these facilities there are huge numbers of processes running at back end to speed up the whole process and these efforts have made bmi airlines as one of the speediest airlines in United Kingdom.
Bmi airline is the abbreviation of British Midland Airways Limited. The official address or head office of the airline is located at Donington Hall, Derby in East Midland. The airline is registered in England and Wales.
Bmi airlines have been in business for more than 70 years, now the airline is operating 1,700 flights every week. Bmi airline has a vast network of 46 airports in Europe, UK, Asia, Middle East and Saudi Arabia. Bmi airlines have established in 1938, as a training institute for pilots training. In the year of 1949, the name of company was changed to Derby Aviation and the company offered some extended services like cargo charter services and passenger services. In 1964 it was given the name of British Midland Airways as it moved to the newly opened airport of East Midland in 1965.
In 1970, bmi airlines saw major landmark in their services with the start of their domestic and international passenger services including long haul flights. The company celebrated serving to more than one million passengers in a year of 1979. The growth of the company continued in the next decade of 1980 as well as bmi flights catered to more than 1.8 M passengers. The airline got its current name of British Midland in the year of 1989.
The airline was rebranded as bmi British Midland in 2001 and after two years it has got its current name of bmi airlines. In the next year of 2002, a new low cost brand called bmibaby was launched. The airline is still operating as one of the leading airlines of UK.
