British Mediterranean Airways
| British Mediterranean Airways Ltd. | |
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| IATA code : | KJ |
| ICAO code : | LAJ |
| Call sign : | BEE MED |
| Founding: | 1994 |
| Operation stopped: | 2007 |
| Seat: |
London , UK
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| Home airport : | London Heathrow Airport |
| Company form: | Ltd. |
| Alliance : |
Oneworld (For British Airways) |
| Frequent Flyer Program : | Executive Club (For British Airways) |
| Fleet size: | 8th |
| Aims: | international |
| British Mediterranean Airways Ltd. ceased operations in 2007. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
British Mediterranean Airways Ltd. , BMED for short , was a British airline based in London . The company had a franchise agreement with British Airways and flew exclusively into their branding.
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BMED was founded in 1994 by a private group of investors. Flight operations began on October 28, 1994 with an Airbus A320-200 and a flight to Beirut Airport . At the beginning of 1995 further flights to Amman and Damascus followed .
On March 30, 1997, the company signed a franchise agreement with British Airways . As a result, BMED aircraft received the British Airways cabin and livery. In addition, all flights were operated under British Airways flight numbers (BA6500-6669).
After BMED ran into massive financial difficulties, the company was taken over by bmi in February 2007 for £ 30 million. BMED flew for British Airways until the end of summer 2007 and then ceased operations. The fleet and staff were integrated into the bmi.
Destinations
Flights to London Heathrow were operated from the Levant , Central Asia and North Africa , which should enable passengers to transfer to long-haul British Airways flights.
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When operations ceased in the summer of 2007, the fleet consisted of eight aircraft:
All machines became part of the bmi portfolio .
Incidents
On March 31, 2003, a BMED Airbus A320 was involved in a serious incident. When approaching Addis Ababa Airport , the flight management system calculated an incorrect position for the aircraft after it received incorrect information from an airport radio beacon. The pilots noticed late that the aircraft was heading for terrain and initiated a go - around maneuver . As calculations afterwards showed, the machine was just 17 meters above the ground at the most critical time.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ ch-aviation: BMED , accessed on July 6, 2015
- ^ A b Günter Endres / Graham Edwards: Type manual airlines . Heel, 2008, ISBN 978-3-89880-916-0 .
- ^ BMED Company History. Archived from the original on July 3, 2006 ; Retrieved July 6, 2015 .
- ^ Alistair Osborne: Bmi takes control of BMED in £ 30m deal. In: The Telegraph. February 3, 2007, accessed July 6, 2015 .
- ↑ planespotters.net: British Mediterranean Airways Fleet Details and History , accessed on July 6, 2015
- ^ AAIB : Report on the accident to Airbus A320-231, G-MEDA On approach to Addis Abeba Airport, Ethiopia (English), accessed on July 6, 2015
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