Good grief!

[Tonish]

This from Yahoo! - if it's that easy, we should club together and start our own.....


<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:An A-level student has launched a no-frills airline from his bedroom in Merseyside.

Daniel Reilly, 18, from Maghull, is thought to be the youngest chief executive of an airline in the world.

He was inspired to set up Nexus Airlines after completing a school project on low-cost airlines. He is currently leasing a Boeing 737 plane from Futura International Airlines, based in Palma.

The teenager said: "I started flying lessons when I was 16 and my friends started joking about us buying a plane together and flying people around the world. It was just a joke really but I took it a bit more seriously and decided to look into it.

"I've always been interested in aviation so I decided to do my A-Level business studies project on setting up an airline. I called round a few airlines and asked how they had done it and I slowly realised it was quite achievable."

Daniel, who attends Deyes High School in Maghull, showed his project to a financial adviser who found backers for the business.

Initially the airline will operate services from Liverpool John Lennon Airport to Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and Fuerteventura from its new headquarters in Bradford, West Yorkshire.

Customers will be able to book flights - which cost from £50 one-way - from Friday, with the first flights taking off on November 1 this year.

In the meantime, the new airline chief is awaiting the results of his A levels in Business Studies, English Language, Sociology and General Studies.

He said: "Most of my school friends are now going off to university but I'm in charge of an airline.

"I don't know if I will be the next Richard Branson but I certainly wouldn't say no."
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Tonish

[steph_goodrum]

There has been someone setting up flights to Florida from Glasgow for the last couple of years and judging by the hurdles he has encountered with 2 setbacks at least to initial flight (which is still Oct, so even now hasn't had a successful flight yet.) subject to the latest cert he needed, so it's not quite as easy as they make it out to be. Of course it depends who your financial backers are and how much is invested I would imagine as to how quickly it will get going.

[KevinT]

<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by steph_goodrum
There has been someone setting up flights to Florida from Glasgow for the last couple of years and judging by the hurdles he has encountered with 2 setbacks at least to initial flight (which is still Oct, so even now hasn't had a successful flight yet.) subject to the latest cert he needed, so it's not quite as easy as they make it out to be. Of course it depends who your financial backers are and how much is invested I would imagine as to how quickly it will get going.
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He could have hit his third hurdle Steph - he's leased his plane from - yes - Excel!!
Although the 767 he's advertising on his site has 3 classes of seating including business/ premier and economy and they advertise the economy seats as having a 32" pitch (bet that doesn't last long
if that 767 has to go out of service!! [msnwink])