Wolfgang Prock-Schauer, bmi’s chief executive, has confirmed that the board has drawn up a strategy which would see bmi operating as a feeder airline to parent company, Lufthansa, in continental Europe. Bmi would then use the slots freed at Heathrow for more profitable routes to the Middle East and Africa. bmi – which is being re-branded as British Midland International – would still retain a presence in the UK, serving Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Belfast. But the airline is also coming to blows with BAA over the state of play at Heathrow, publicly trading blows in the press over the decision

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