Originally Posted by
GrimeySky
I think anyone looking at Global should perhaps take a step back... it is not an airline. It's not more than an idea.
Allegedly they have bought (?) some A380s.
But they have no AOC.
The mere fact that they are still referring to a 'Spring 2024' launch of services should be evidence enough that they are not serious. There is no way that is going to happen. So why waste too much energy picking apart their 'plans' - because there is obviously little solid behind them.
Sure, they are getting a bit of interest on Social Media - from bloggers and 'influencers' who presumably are angling for a freebie on an inaugural service. There'll be some predictable UK media coverage - the tabloids always love an 'underdog'. But the term innovator (and I predict soon, comparisons with 'the new Richard Branson'!) requires that you have actually ACHIEVED something. Buying some mothballed behemoth from a field in France does not count.
Asquith posts about his 'rockstar team' and their achievements. Yesterday on his 'right hand man' - QUOTE 'a loyal, hardworking and trustworthy innovative, disruptive thinker - mixed with the experience and skill set to match. The rarest of combinations. You like everyone here, make Global Airlines what it is...' UNQUOTE
But what IS Global? What have they so far 'made' Global into?
Nothing. It's not an airline. It's just an idea.
And based on the statements so far ('ops in Spring 2024') anything that they are saying needs to be taken with a large pinch of salt. Because all evidence indicates that they don't really have a clue about running an airline. Yeah, they've hired some ops people. (Every one of them a 'guru' according to Asquith - another overused and generally meaningless term!)
Currently therefore it seems that Global is mainly operating in that most dangerous of areas - where they still don't know what they don't know. (Clue: apparently from their statements, that's a lot!)
A fabulous post, thank you GS. The only thing I would add though is that he is out there trying to raise money on the back of this idea. And that is really really naughty.