Originally Posted by
crewmeal
A lot of work ahead if they're to launch in Spring 2024.
1. How many pilots are required for the operation?
2. Again how many cabin crew to hire and train in time who will train them and where?
3. Catering? Ordering all the logo equipment. Setting up contractors where ever they fly to?
4. Ground staff handling at airports.
5. Engineering, that's a big one to sort out.
6. Uniforms?
7. Route structure and base.
I can't think of anything else, but I'm sure those more qualified will add to the list.
Before any of this, they need to raise a ****-ton of money, get an AOC and an Operating Licence. Then I add to your list:
CRS
Distribution technology
CCDC processing
Anti-fraud systems
Revenue management systems
Revenue recognition and reconciliation systems
Staff and duty travel systems/policies
CAMO
Operations Control
Maintrol
A finance system
A payroll bureau
Route licences
A call centre
Slots
About a zillion contracts for catering (over and above the equipment you rightly mentioned), ground handling (above and below the wing), technical handling, airports…
Marketing agencies and media buyers
Flight crew training and simulator providers
Paint shops
Fuel contracts
Interior refit specialists (and that interior is going to be millions per aircraft - and may even be tens of millions given the power demands of “gamer class”)
And that’s off the top of my head.
Interesting to see the aircraft is in Lourdes. They’ll need a whole load of miracles.
This is the sort of pie in the sky nonsense that makes Halstead and Unsworth sound rational.