After having read about Alpha 1 since the start on pprune, I was sure that before anymore posts were banned on the subject previously that it was generally agreed that it was never going to happen anyway? The consensus was that it was nothing more than a publicity ride for the young lad and nothing more than a virtual airline in all ways.
This was apparent to all but the dwindling band of supporters(mostly Martin himself as pseudonyms!) and the odd spotter or wannabe who thought he might get a job with him decrying everybody for knocking the "new Richard Branson".
I have to admit i was surprised to read the thread saying that Alpha 1 had collapsed as I thought i may have been wrong before in believing that it would never get started, but it seems from reading the posts here that it hasn't actually begun.
Maybe a renaming of this thread to Alpha 1 hasn't actually began(again) might be apposite