bmi enters Jordan market

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BMED
• Formally known as British Mediterranean, BMED was established as a limited company in 1994 by a group of private investors
• BMED operated as an independent franchise partner of British Airways from 1997
• BMED has a fleet of three Airbus A320 and five Airbus A321 aircraft
• The airline flies to 17 destinations in 16 countries throughout Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia.
bmi group
• The bmi group comprises of three business units: bmi, operating a fleet of 28 Airbuses; bmi regional, operating domestic and European business routes from UK regional airports with a fleet of 16 Embraers; and bmibaby, the low-cost arm of the group, operating 19 Boeing 737s within the UK and Europe. The group has 4,229 employees (as at Jan 07)
• In its most recent financial results (2005) the bmi group reported a turnover of £869 million, with 10.5 million passengers carried
• bmi is the second largest airline at London Heathrow, one of the world's busiest and best connected airports. Across its full network, bmi operates nearly 1,700 flights a week to: Aberdeen; Alicante; Amsterdam; Antigua; Barbados; Belfast City; Brussels; Cairo (from 4 November 2007); Chicago; Copenhagen; Dublin; Durham Tees Valley; East Midlands; Edinburgh; Esbjerg; Glasgow; Groningen; Hanover; Inverness; Jeddah; Jersey; Kristiansand; Las Vegas; Leeds Bradford; London Heathrow; Lyon; Manchester; Moscow Domodedovo; Naples; Nice; Norwich; Palma Mallorca; Riyadh; Venice; Zurich.
•As a result of the acquisition the following BMED destinations are now part of the bmi network: Addis Ababa, Aleppo, Almaty, Amman, Ankara, Baku, Beirut, Bishkek, Damascus, Dakar, Ekaterinburg, Freetown, Khartoum, Tbilisi, Tehran and Yerevan.
• bmi is a member of Star Alliance, which was voted Best Airline Alliance by Business Traveller Magazine in 2003 and 2006 and by Skytrax in 2003, 2005 and 2007. The members are Air Canada, Air New Zealand, ANA, Asiana Airlines, Austrian, bmi, LOT Polish Airlines, Lufthansa, Scandinavian Airlines, Singapore Airlines, South African Airways, Spanair, SWISS, TAP Portugal, THAI, United and US Airways. Regional member carriers Adria Airways (Slovenia), Blue1 (Finland) and Croatia Airlines enhance the global network. Air China, Shanghai Airlines and Turkish Airlines have been accepted as future members and are expected to join Star Alliance soon. Overall, the Star Alliance network offers more than 16,000 daily flights to 855 destinations in 155 countries.

bmi regional
• bmi regional is a wholly owned subsidiary of bmi and operates an all-jet fleet of modern Embraer aircraft
• bmi regional operates from the following UK airports: Aberdeen, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds Bradford, Manchester and Norwich

Bmibaby
• bmibaby was established in January 2002 and is now one of the UK's fastest growing low-cost airlines operating to: Alicante, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Belfast International, Birmingham International, Bordeaux, Cardiff, Cork, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Faro, Geneva, Glasgow, Jersey, Knock, Lisbon, Malaga, Manchester, Marseille (Provence), Newquay, Nice, Palma, Paris Charles de Gaulle, Perpignan, Prague and Rome (Fiumicino). The airline scooped the Telegraph Travel Award for Best No Frills Airline for three consecutive years (2003, 2004 & 2005).