Airbourne - before you have a snicker at my expense, how many airlines have you started up, exactly? This will be my third. Or three and a half, if you really want to nit-pick!
I've been working on this for exactly 19 months now. Southwest Airlines, probably the most consistently successful airline around, took nearly three years to get up and running; and Laker's Skytrain took almost
four years.
Even Virgin Atlantic - including its previous guise as British Atlantic - took over three years!
If I was you, I'd take a leaf out of the barrister's book: never ask a question that you don't know the answer to!