YOUR VIEWS

BRITISH MIDLAND

THERE has been little or no comment on the decision by BMI (now under the ownership of Lufthansa) to completely shutdown the PMI LHR route, from the beginning of November.

We have been used to the reduction of service in the winter months, but this is complete shutdown.
This means there is no direct route to London Heathrow, a route which many people use due to location. As you are only able to take animals in and out of the UK through Heathrow, what will happen now?

With the gradual withdrawal of airlines flying from the UK, first BA, now BMI, those passengers travelling to/from the London area will be left with only easyJet.

Anyone who has or uses BMI should write and complain — most people I have spoken to didn't even know of the closure. Yours faithfully
Tom Lawton

Costa de la Calma

Dear Sir,

A silent Sunday - Historic center reposing

TODAY I was not awakened by the jarring sound of the nearby crane-clanging for 12 hours daily between the churches of Montesion and Temple and the Plaza Santa Eulalia was not full of trucks, vans and cars-people were enjoying walking and sitting. During the week it's infernal in this historic center with cars driving around in circles in the Plaza San Francisco, huge jeeps invading Calle San Alonso to leave toddlers at the fashionable kindergarten and we walkers have to press ourselves against the walls to let these huge cars pass. Camp de Mar gardens can now be seen thanks to the bicycle pass but someone donated an ugly metal thing they pretend is art! Why can't they take all their machines, toxic fumes, plastic signs, cement and speed to all the modern zone and let live one of the most beautiful historic centers of Europe? Less tourism - is positive for the conservation of Majorca as there are too many bars, cars, rubbish, noise etc. The days of cheap holidays here are finished and as writers say, they will go to Turkey. It will be wonderful when the awful cranes stop forever and people can walk, ride bicycles and have a tram or a train to use.

Jeanette Goudie de Salva