Cookies

A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your computer by a website that you have visited. They can be used for a variety of purposes including remembering what flights you want to buy.

We use cookies to help make our site work. They allow you to make a flight booking and help us to make the site more usable by showing us which pages in the site are viewed the most. We can then make them easier for you to find. We sometimes use cookies to show you offers that are relevant to you based on the bookings you have made or the pages you have looked at. Our cookies will never hold any personal or confidential information about you.

We use cookies for four different reasons, below are the types that we use and what they are used for:

Necessary cookies
Performance cookies
Utility cookies
Targeting cookies

Necessary cookies

Necessary cookies are required to perform basic tasks such as remembering which flights you want to purchase. They are automatically deleted at the end of your session,

Cookie name	Description	Expires
ASP.NET_SessionId	Allows the site to remember details you may have provided on other pages. This means you can complete our various processes such as online check-in or online booking.	End of session
BMI.ASPXAUTH	This cookie gives the site the ability to remember that you are logged in.	End of session
BMI.ANON	This cookie tells the site that you are not currently logged in.	End of session
FlightBasket	Allows the site to remember the position of the basket during online booking. By knowing this it can move up and down accordingly when you scroll up and down long pages so that you can always see the price you will pay.	End of session

These cookies are necessary

Enabled

Performance cookies

Performance cookies show us which areas of the site people use most often. We then use this information to make popular content easier to find. They also tell us about any errors that you might have had when using the site so that we can investigate and fix when required.

Cookie name

Description

Expires

Omniture:

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Omniture cookies log which pages are most frequently viewed and the path that you took to get there. This helps us to optimise the site making content easier to find.

Up to 5 years

bmiTrack

This cookie tracks any errors that may occur as you use the site. This gives us the ability to improve any areas of the site that might not be working correctly.

30 days

Utility cookies

Utility cookies are not critical to the site working however they do make your visit to the site a more enjoyable one. An example of a utility cookie would be one that remembers your preferred location and language. Once you have this cookie the site will automatically remember your preference.

Cookie name	Description	Expires
cultureCode	Stores your preferred location and language meaning that you will not be asked for your preference the next time you visit.	1 year
pastSearches	Stores previous flight searches you have made on the home page. This cookie is activated by clicking "save my past searches" on the flight search magnet.	30 days

Targeting cookies

Targeting cookies are used by our partners to perform a number of personalisation and tracking activities. These cookies allow for adverts to be shown to you as you visit various sites on the internet that are related to purchases you have made.

Cookie name	Description	Expires
DoubleClick (Google)	DoubleClick is an advertising partner that monitor purchases you make so they can show you adverts related to your purchases when you are on other peoples sites. You can find out more about Google and its policies and principles with regards to advertising at http://www.google.co.uk/policies/privacy/ads/	2 years
Addthis.com	This cookie is used to allow you to easily bookmark selected flybmi.com pages. You can find out more about addthis.com at their website http://www.addthis.com	Up to 2 years

Please note that cookies are essential for bmiregional.com to work correctly and if you do not have cookies enabled you will not be able to use the majority of features within the website.