I'm slightly confused who, on a site for aviation professionals, wants this airline to succeed?
I will place my month's salary on the fact that of the (pitiful) 32 passengers on board, most would have flown with BA through LHR rather than a 'competitor'.
So we now have a BA marketed and financed plane, flying BA passengers, with US cabin crew, TCX operations, local engineering, and non-mainline pilots on crap pay.
This is not job creation. It is outsourcing at it's most blatant.
Except for a handful of Waterside managers and retired BA pilots cashing in, openskies benefits no one in the industry.