Lufthansa (LH, Frankfurt International) will get 80% majority control of its Star Alliance partner bmi british midland (BD/Nottingham) and its bmi regional (II/Aberdeen) and bmibaby (WW/Nottingham) subsidiaries in early 2009 after Sir Michael Bishop has exercised his option to sell his 50% stake to Lufthansa. It will also take over the remaining 50.9% in Eurowings (EW/Dortmund) and its germanwings (4U/Cologne/Bonn) subsidiary on December 31 from majority shareholder Albert Knauf. It has finalized details of its latest Embraer order and will take delivery of 18 EMB-190s and 12 EMB-195s in 2009. Some of the aircraft will be operated by Air Dolomiti (EN/Trieste) and Augsburg Airways (IQ/Augsburg). Lufthansa has however parked four A300-600s and is planning to also temporarily withdraw three A340-300s from service and will not resume its Munich-Denver route next summer season. It has given up its Frankfurt Intl-Bordeaux and Stuttgart-Dublin/Florence/Olbia routes on October 26 and temporarily suspended its Hamburg-Prague route for the winter season but has announced new services and restructured its network to the Middle East in late October 2008: Dusseldorf Intl-Inverness: weekly seasonal CRJ-700 service between June 20 and September 12 operated by Lufthansa CityLine (CL/Cologne/Bonn) Frankfurt Intl-Abu Dhabi-Doha: 3x weekly A330-300/A340-300 service (replacing Doha-Muscat and Dammam/Bahrain-Abu Dhabi) Frankfurt Intl-Abu Dhabi-Muscat: 3x weekly A330-300/A340-300 service (replacing Doha-Muscat and Dammam/Bahrain-Abu Dhabi) Frankfurt Intl-Bahrain-Doha: 4x weekly A330-300/A340-300 service (replacing Bahrain-Abu Dhabi and Doha-Muscat) Frankfurt Intl-Kuwait-Dammam: 3x weekly A330-300/A340-300 service (3 out of 7 weekly Kuwait services extended replacing Dammam-Abu Dhabi)