It was built on this absolutely blind certainty of AOC investment off the back of Vince's 'positive' reputation - as such their pitches to investors were very heavy on the vegan catering, and less so on the economics of a second operator on EDI-CWL. Staff were supposedly told that Vince had agreed to fund the AOC himself if push came to shove; of course that never happened and instead we had people leaving jobs at real airlines to sit around and be fed half-truths for 12 months or so, before being let go. They are still very much trying to fundraise, but didn't sound too optimistic even in the recent SASHA puff piece (which claimed their continued lack of investment was due to 'uncertainty surrounding future certification pathways for hydrogen-powered aircraft').