As we know bmi was sold lock, stock and barrell to BA (or rather International Airlines Group as they prefer to be known). They had to take bmibaby – the low cost version of bmi – with the bathwater, the bmi slots at Heathrow.

Now comes news from the BBC that bmibaby will stop all flights from Belfast on 11 June.

bmibaby fly Belfast to:

• Alicante
• Amsterdam
• Birmingham
• East Midlands
• Faro
• Ibiza
• Mahon in Menorca
• Malaga
• Palma
• Stansted

The telling paragraph is:

Peter Simpson, bmi interim managing director, said the company had lost £100m in in the last four years and would have to be “realistic” about its options.
the last four years and would have to be “realistic” about its options.