Just seen on CAA web site Official record 2 that Gill Airways has applied for a Type A Licence. Anybody have any ideas. The address given is in Birmingham.

http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/213/1916.pdf

Again???? Weren't they flying sheds between NCL and BHX? I remember buying some of their bankrupt stock for the Company I was working for at the time

They had their issues when operating, but overall a good little airline and it was nice to see one based in the North East. Afterall their network was fairly wide, with contracts with Air France flying jets into Europe, as well as their network of regional scheduled flights and charters. Know a few people who'd love to see Gill back!!!;)

Gill Airways were a significant regional airline based at Newcastle in the 80s and 90s but I doubt these people have any connection with that.

This Gill Aviation has was incorporated on 20-05-2008, their Incorporation documents - (16 pages),along with annual returns, names of directors etc are available online for the princely sum of £18.

Can't say that I am that interested.

I note that the application (or perhaps the CAA transcription) misspells the address "140 Hollyhead Road, Handsworth"... and that 140 Holyhead Road is (ominously) the address of the local Jobcentre (http://www.jobcentreguide.co.uk/offices/4-birmingham.html) :hmm: (and hopefully other offices too...)

Why resurrect the name if there is no connection between the old Gill and the new one? it is hardly a name that you would otherwise use.

If I recall correctly, Gill were a profitable airline that got killed off by nervous banks about the time of one of the Gulf Wars. There were operating Fokker 100s, ATRs and Sheds. Used to hang out with Gill crews in a Ponteland pub when I was working out of NCL... nice bunch.

I don't think that it's a resurrection of the original. Just step back and think about it. Gill is a Sikh name, there are many Sikhs in the Handsworth, Birmingham area (The largest Sikh Temple in Europe is just down the same road from that address). There is an Asian travel agency virtually next 140 Holyhead Road. Put two and two together and you have an airline named after a person called Gill. Simple ain't it.
Mind you, thinking about it, wasn't the original address of Air Sylhet or one of the other duff starts in that immediate area of Holyhead Road?

I recall correctly, Gill were a profitable airline that got killed off by nervous banks about the time of one of the Gulf Wars. There were operating Fokker 100s, ATRs and Sheds.


Gill were killed off by those careful, well planned and profitable folks at erm...RBS :ugh: in the crisis after 9/11, they simply withdrew funding

I used to love flying the Shorts!

Think the original Mike Gill is still in Florida..... Maybe he's making a return!

Also there are some ex_Gill management at a loose end right now! ;)

Think it was the Bank of Scotland (Now Lloyds/HBOS), not RBS that pulled the rug in 2001

LJ

Gill is a Sikh name

It isn't only a Sikh name, as the original principal of Gill Airways will tell you... it is actually the name of a clan from the Punjab, and can be found amongst both Sikh and Muslim people (and good old Anglo-Saxons too).

The choice of "Airways" in the name is also curious, exactly the same as the Newcastle outfit. Why not choose "airlines" or "aviation" or something different?

Maybe a coincidence... maybe not.