Troubles with Bmi Baby

Advantages: cheap flights
Disadvantages: service, delayed flights

...I was travelling with Bmi Baby for many times to Prague, Czech republic. It takes around 2 hours there so it isnt too long and you can stand it easily. They are one of cheaper airlines but somethimes annoy me so much... The first and the biggest problem for me is that nowadays its impossible to buy a ticket online. I still dont know why, I tried it on more computers and it doesnt work. It dont want to make the final payment and the web window block my computer. So...I need to call them what is really really annoying. For me the most annoying thing!!! Firstly it takes around 10 minutes while I listen all the songs on line when they give me an operator. Secondly theres a horrible mass and loud and I cant hear the operator very well and he cant understand me. So I have to spell my name slowly and compare every single letter to some...

bibisk 26.11.2008 · Read review
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BMI has lost its 5 star reputation in my eyes

Advantages: Good value flights in economy can be found in advance
Disadvantages: The limited short haul business options remaining are not competative.

...Like the previous contributor I have flown several times in business class with BMI and less often, in economy class. My flights have however been for the most part to Brussels though I have flown in Business to Glasgow and economy to other domestic locations (Manchester, Edinburgh etc); the latter flights were not as recent than the Brussels trips though so my comments focus primarily on these. Short haul business class travel is now confined to very few destinations. Business have embraced the low frills concept in many respects and went through a spell of charging all non business passengers for food. This policy has been modified a little and anyone with a blue plus level of membership with their frequent flyer programme will get some free food once again. However, it is a far cry from the days when they offered some very tasty...

andrewfleminguk 18.08.2007 · Read review
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BMI - I hope you dont

Advantages: None
Disadvantages: Expensive Flight for a Budget Airline, Cancellations, Damp Seats, No Refreshments, Poor Customer Service, No Communication

...I was returning from Amsterdam with FlyBmi. As we arrived at the airport for our return flight, we were informed our flight to heathrow was cancelled due to Weather conditions. However what I dont understand is that other flights were still flying to London, in fact another BMI flight had departed 20minutes before our flight was scheduled to depart. Me and my party were left stranded at the airport. So we decided to speak to Check-in staff, they were busy as expected, but it was a Sunday Evening so could have been a lot worse. However what happened next was appaling. We were made to wait in a queue for three hours, no refreshements were offered and no communication was provided to any of their customers. Other Flights still continued to depart to London, it seemed like only our flight was cancelled, a few people before us were...

FlyBMIatYourPeril 09.01.2008 · Read review
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BMI Baby; not an Austin Powers in sight!

Advantages: Convenient, good prices, good planes
Disadvantages: Not much leg room, need to book well in advance

...BMI Baby I am fortunate enough to live within easy driving distance of Manchester Airport and as such am able to take advantage of the increasing number of cheaper flights on offer from Manchester. I recently flew from Manchester to Prague with BMI Baby (my first trip with them) and this is my opinion!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Booking? I booked directly using the BMI website (www.bmibaby.com) which is very easy to use and navigate. One the first page you get options to chose your departure airport, destination as well as the dates that you wish to travel on. Once you have selected these the site displays the flight times available including prices. You then choose the times that you want to fly before the final price of your flight is displayed. Some nice touches are that the site displays the Web...

nickjj78 02.05.2005 · Read review
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BMI - cheap and cheerful!

Advantages: Cheap Prices
Disadvantages: Expensive food/drink on flight

...Had my first BMI flight from Glasgow to Heathrow and I have to say I was pleasantly surprised. I have never used this airline before but will definitely use them again. Unfortunately, the flights were booked by someone else so I can't really comment on how easy it was to book these but i'd imagine it would be much the same as easyjet or ryanair. One of the party I was in checked in online before we left for the airport. This is good if you are travelling on your own but not so great for a large booking. We arrived at the airport approximately an hour before departure which was great, no sitting around in the airport for hours. The check-in closing 40 minutes before the flight time is great. There was barely a queue when we arrived and we managed to check in easily and were given seats together. I much prefer this to easyjet...

moneybags_82 15.02.2006 · Read review
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BMI Baby General Review from EMA User

Advantages: Cheap, Local and Friendyl
Disadvantages: Limited Destinations

...As a resident of Loughborough, East Midlands aiport (yes I know it is now Nottingham East Midlands but that is a sore point around here) is great for us. Both BMI Baby and Easyjet have regular flights out to various destinations, in my most recent 3 flights I have travelled with BMI Baby. Flying to Edinburgh, Paris & Knock are all the less than 1 hour 'hops' by plane and all have been extremely enjoyable and I must congratulate BMI on there service through. The staff have all been friendly, the planes etc tidy and the flight costs have all been bargains - try getting to these places by other means for less! My main reason for this review is in regard to my last flight, this was in May 04 to Knock in Ireland. This experience has a few tales to tell......... Firstly we arrived and checked in, here we were told there had been...

markluk 24.06.2004 · Read review
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Great Service, Great Price and Great Flight!

Advantages: Friendly, courteous staff, comfortable seating, good food.
Disadvantages: None

...We recently booked a long haul flight on BMI to Las Vegas. I have always flown Virgin Atlantic before which I think are great and was somewhat sceptical about BMI. I dont like flying much and choose to fly usually on a 747 jumbo because they dont suffer much from turbulence and feel much more steadier. The BMI plaine was an airbus which is smaller. For our outward journey we had upgraded to Premium and it was fabulous! I had read that BMI had revamped their first class sections and put the old stuff into premium, so in affect we were travelling in first class seats. They were roomy, comfortable and the service was great, they couldnt do enought for us. The food was really good, hot and tasty and the entertainment was good too. The flight was very smooth and seemed to pass really quickly for 10 hours. OUr return journey was booked...

shellshorses 29.10.2009 · Read review
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You'll get no tears from this Baby!

Advantages: Reasonably priced; Good service which gets you from A to B
Disadvantages: None that I came across

...because it is only a short flight, usually lasting around one and a quarter hours from Manchester Airport. I had decided that this year?s holiday would be ideal for a first time trip with a low budget airline, simply because if the airline was crap, at least we would only have a short flight to contend with! And so my search began. The first couple of airlines I searched seemed a little too pricey, namely British European and Flybe (who, I understand, now seem to be part of the same company). My next option was Easyjet, but I discovered that they do not fly to the Channel Islands. Next on my list was BMI Baby ? well, this was going to cost £100 less than the others ? so guess which one I booked with...? ~~~A LITTLE BACKGROUND INFORMATION~~~ As many people are aware, BMI Baby is the ?offspring? of British Midland Airways. Founded...

matthewsmum 19.07.2007 (16.07.2007) · Read review
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  Cheap & Cheerful isn't everything!

Advantages: Cheap & Cheerful!
Disadvantages: Limited Destinations, Delays, Reliability!

...company Sun4U which we later found is the English representative of a Spanish company JumboTours (Sun4U can often be found on the teletext holiday pages). After one quick phone call it was sorted... we were off to Majorca on 5th Sept and flying with BMI Baby... a new experience for us both! ** Who Are They ** BMI Baby promotes itself as "the airline with tiny fares," an off shoot almost of other budget airlines including EasyJet and RyanAir. They are owned by the more prestigious BMI (British Midland) flight company, one of the leading flight suppliers in the UK today. ** Where They Fly ** As other low cost budget airlines BMI Baby's route map is limited to destinations within Europe although currently flies to over 20 destinations within Europe. The other bonus with this airline is that it departs from 10 UK airports including...

s_jones_2003 29.09.2004 · Read review
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Smooth as a baby's bum!

Advantages: Cheap and convenient
Disadvantages: No thrills at all

...After securing a ticket for the Champions League final less than ten days before the event at a vastly inflated price I was faced with a desperate search for an affordable flight to Paris. This was easier said than done as Easyjet wanted £323 just for the flight home on the Thursday and another £112 to fly out on the Tuesday, whilst Ryanair did not appear to fly to Paris. Finally I remembered that bmibaby fly out of Nottingham and so it was off to their website for a look. Booking Being a low cost airline booking for bmibaby (bmi from now on) is either online or by phone however if you go the online route it is cheaper by £5 per flight so in total you will save £10 on a return flight as you effectively get a price for each part of a return flight. Arriving at the home page I was pleased to see a well set out site, unlike Ryanair...

atticusuk 01.06.2006 · Read review
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