bmi is cutting back on its plans to expand transatlantic.

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bmi, the airline previously known as British Midland -- is now no longer planning to fly to the US from Heathrow as soon as it's allowed to under the new Open Skies agreement, even though in July it announced a large order for new planes for the route. However it has finally completed its takeover of an old British Airways franchise, BMED.

Known as "BA with Balls" it'll maintain flights to destinations with a history of disturbance, like Kazakhstan, Beirut, and Sierra Leone. It marks a significant shift for bmi which has axed many of its tourist routes around Europe -- such as Paris and Madrid -- and longhaul -- like India -- to concentrate on more obscure Medium Haul routes with significant oil worker traffic.