As bad as that Times piece is, it's also quite telling. Asquith comes across as little more than a spotter with a dream. Nothing wrong with having dreams but they're very different to reality. Anyone can parrot lines about putting A380s on 'demand heavy sectors' allowing them to provide a luxury experience for the same price as you'd pay on a legacy airline. Explaining the economics of how that works is an entirely different matter. Does anyone watch this and find themselves at all convinced by him?
https://x.com/james_asquith/status/1...061265619?s=20
These constant puff pieces, appearing at Routes World, etc are all well and good, but they remain unable or unwilling to answer the difficult questions that are asked of them about the viability of getting this airline up and running.