British Midland‘s efforts to restart the services formerly operated by Debonair on behalf of Lufthansa continue to be delayed by difficulties in transferring the leases of the aircraft involved. As a result, British Midland is considering other options, including leasing some of the BAe 146s that Braathens Malmö Aviation will be returning to BAe-AMJ when it receives Avro RJ100s. An early 2000 start-up is now envisaged, initially with two aircraft, to be increased to five a month later.