31 OCTOBER 2011

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Article from BTNews 31 OCTOBER 2011

Lord Glendonbrook

Sir Michael Bishop should be a familiar name to anyone in aviation over the last nearly 50 years.  Somehow AERBT missed his raising to the peerage (and congratulations) in February as Baron Glendonbrook of Bowdon in the County of Cheshire (where he was born in February 1942).  He has contributed to the arts and education over the years and is Chairman of D'Oyly Carte. 

In 1963 Bishop joined the Manchester-based Mercury Airlines, a small scheduled and charter carrier, which was taken over by British Midland Airways (now bmi) in October 1964.  By 1969 he became General Manager and three years later Managing Director.  The rest is aviation history with a succession of mergers and takeovers until the final selling of the UK’s largest privately owned airline and second biggest slot holder at Heathrow to Lufthansa for a reputed £300m+.

The present bilateral airline arrangements between the European Union and the United States owe much to the efforts and perseverance of Lord Glendonbrook. However when the deal was made bmi declined to invest in transatlantic routes, the by now Sir Michael deciding it was all too risky.

His name is again in the news as Lufthansa decides what to do with its loss making subsidiary. www.flybmi.com

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