British Midland Airways Limited

British Midland International
Founded	1938 as Air Schools Limited
Ceased operations	27 October 2012 (integrated into British Airways)
Hubs	London Heathrow Airport
Frequent-flyer program	Diamond Club
Alliance	Star Alliance
Subsidiaries	bmibaby; BMI Regional;
Fleet size	27
Destinations	35
Company slogan	Better for Business (2009–2010)
Parent company	International Airlines Group; Lufthansa (until 20 April 2012);
Headquarters	Donington Hall, Castle Donington, United Kingdom
Key people	Peter Simpson, MD; Vagn Sørensen, Chairman; Wolfgang Prock-Schauer, CEO;

British Midland Airways Limited, known as BMI,^[1] was an airline based at Donington Hall in Castle Donington in the United Kingdom, close to East Midlands Airport. The airline flew to places in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Central Asia from its base at London Heathrow Airport, where it held 11% of all take off and landing slots and ran over 2,000 flights a week.

BMI was owned by Lufthansa, who announced an agreement in December 2011 to sell the airline to the owner of British Airways, International Airlines Group. The deal did not include Bmibaby and BMI Regional..^[2] BMI Regional was sold to Sector Aviation Holdings for £8 million in May 2012.^[3] In April 2012, it was announced that bmi (excluding bmibaby) was to be fully merged into British Airways by the end of October 2012.

British Midland Airways Limited had a Civil Aviation Authority Type A Operating Licence, which allowed it to carry passengers, cargo and mail on aircraft with 20 or more seats,^[4] and was a 3-star airline by Skytrax.

British Midland Airways Limited Media

Canadair C-4 Argonaut G-ALHS of Derby Airways at Manchester Airporton 20 August 1962
Douglas C-47 Dakota wearing British Midland's initial colour scheme in 1965
British Midland Airways Viscount 814 G-BAPF at Paris Orly in June 1981
British Midland Airways Boeing 707-338C G-BFLE at Paris Charles de Gaulle in 1982
Passengers boarding Viscount 813G-AZNA at Teesside Airport on 21 June 1987
Two McDonnell Douglas DC-9s at Teesside Airport in 1994. (The aircraft in the foreground is a series 10 featuring only one pair of overwing exits, and the aircraft in the background is a series 30 featuring two pairs of overwing exits.)
Boeing 737-400 landing at Heathrow Airport in 1997
The BMI logo introduced in 2001
Boeing 737-5Q8 G-BVZH landing at Edinburgh Airport on 5 May 2001