Global Airlines, after four flights over the Atlantic more nothing: It's mystery about the future of the airline and its A380
About ten days after the last of four flights operated across the Atlantic during May (first a [...]
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About ten days after the last of four flights operated across the Atlantic during the month of May (first a rotation between Glasgow and New York JFK and then one between Manchester and the same JFK) seems to be already dropped the curtain on the future of Global Airlines as it had been announced by its founder James Asquith: a carrier that would change the way people fly between the U.K. and the U.S. because of the high level of service and on-board its fleet of Airbus A380s.
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In the U.S. many compare Global to the famous Fyre Festival fiasco, if you don't know what we are talking about look it up on Netflix.
Any further search for information proved futile, as the carrier even put its website on standby. But what is known is. the four transatlantic flights were a flop, with about a hundred passengers on board out of the more than 500 seats available In the three cabins of First, Business Class and Economy Class.
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And that reports from those who have been on board speak of a product with little identity (perforce, the flights are operated by Hi-Fly, even though the plane is owned and liveried by Global), and interiors showing all ten years of the plane, which previously flew with China Southern Airlines. Also the our colleague Christian Magnuson, author of the photos and video, asks the same questions.
The German website Aerotelegraph reports that the ownership of Global Would be in talks with multiple parties (including a Saudi fund) to which to sell shares in the company and would be considering 'hijack' its operations, abandoning the idea of becoming a scheduled carrier to jump into the charter and ACMI charter market (for which Global would sub-lease aircraft and crew to third parties), not excluding the market for flights by Muslim pilgrims (who number in the millions in the UK) to Mecca.
In the face of press reports, May 3, Global posted on his Linkedin profile another message, this time very verbose, in which it denies any intention to veer its business toward charters and ACMI, however, saying nothing about its future and explaining that "in the coming days or weeks (!)" he will make his next moves known.
