BMI Regional ‘On the Move’

Following its first full year of independent operations, the UK’s BMI Regional reported a so-called trading update and 2014 outlook in late January, under which it announced the launch of new intra-Scandinavia services involving several new destinations, a doubling of capacity on its Aberdeen-Oslo route and this month’s launch of Newcastle-Brussels service.

Last year the former BMI Group subsidiary carried nearly 500,000 passengers while launching its first-ever service on the European continent. The route, connecting Bremen and Toulouse, marked the start of a campaign to expand outside the UK and complemented the launch of a range of routes from Bristol, Birmingham and Aberdeen, Scotland. Other new services, such as Aberdeen to Kristiansund and Oslo in Norway, followed with a plan to improve connectivity for the oil and gas industries.