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https://paxex.aero/holiday-swap-data...g-review-mess/
As expected, once you look into Holiday Swap it’s just as much of a mess.
As expected, once you look into Holiday Swap it’s just as much of a mess.
https://paxex.aero/holiday-swap-data...g-review-mess/
As expected, once you look into Holiday Swap it’s just as much of a mess.
As expected, once you look into Holiday Swap it’s just as much of a mess.
Ask questions like - what possessed you to buy a retired airframe that will ptobably never fly agsin?
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On a serious note, I remain baffled by this talk of flying the aircraft in from the USA. They purchased the aircraft from Doric with it widely reported that it was 9H-MIP (MSN 006) which, as already noted, is known to have been stored at LDE since March 2021. This article states that Doric were also marketing A6-EDH (MSN 025). However this has been stored at DWC since March 2020. Last time I checked, neither of those airports are in the USA.
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As expected, once you look into Holiday Swap it’s just as much of a mess.
As expected, once you look into Holiday Swap it’s just as much of a mess.
To add a bit to Seth Miller’s Paxex.aero researches….
The very first property shown on Holidayswap’s current website as an example is stated to be a “luxurious 9-bedroom, 7.5-bathroom villa” in Florida, and is a commercial rental not a “holiday home swap”. The address given for the property is that of a very small bungalow, about 19 miles from the property described and with none of the facilities claimed.
Whatever property details you look at, Holidayswap shows you the same random selection of others as “similar homes” - a 4 bedroom and a 1 bedroom one in Florida, a 1 bedroom apartment in Vienna and 1 bedroom one in a Tokyo suburb. These are also "similar homes" to a villa in Bali and an aprtment hotel in the Andes in Chile!
In the UK a huge percentage of properties are actually small furnished rentals in industrial areas in the north of England, and not vacation properties. Some have addresses which turn out to be on industrial estates. Others have ludicrous photos and addresses. Limehouse Church Institute, a grade 2 listed Edwardian building, is shown for an apartment with an address of “Canary Wharf, Londra E14, Birleşik Krallık”, one of many uploaded at the same time by someone who appears to be in Turkey. Miller’s assessment of the web traffic as being of the order of 1000 visits per month (i.e. 30-odd per day) matches other traffic monitors.
The very first property shown on Holidayswap’s current website as an example is stated to be a “luxurious 9-bedroom, 7.5-bathroom villa” in Florida, and is a commercial rental not a “holiday home swap”. The address given for the property is that of a very small bungalow, about 19 miles from the property described and with none of the facilities claimed.
Whatever property details you look at, Holidayswap shows you the same random selection of others as “similar homes” - a 4 bedroom and a 1 bedroom one in Florida, a 1 bedroom apartment in Vienna and 1 bedroom one in a Tokyo suburb. These are also "similar homes" to a villa in Bali and an aprtment hotel in the Andes in Chile!
In the UK a huge percentage of properties are actually small furnished rentals in industrial areas in the north of England, and not vacation properties. Some have addresses which turn out to be on industrial estates. Others have ludicrous photos and addresses. Limehouse Church Institute, a grade 2 listed Edwardian building, is shown for an apartment with an address of “Canary Wharf, Londra E14, Birleşik Krallık”, one of many uploaded at the same time by someone who appears to be in Turkey. Miller’s assessment of the web traffic as being of the order of 1000 visits per month (i.e. 30-odd per day) matches other traffic monitors.
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Some nice journalism, in a very litigation averse age! Having browsed a few cities I know; yes - exactly what he says. And the dross drowns out that stuff that seems more real so comprehensively (have a look at Glasgow, for example!) that I can't see anyone who tried to use the site succeeding.
I don't understand what kind of investor would be impressed by that site, but then I also don't understand what kind of investor would put money into Global!
I don't understand what kind of investor would be impressed by that site, but then I also don't understand what kind of investor would put money into Global!
I've also posted some of my last comment on Miller's blog, with some additional research....
"Your assessment of the web traffic as being of the order of 1000 visits per month (i.e. 30-odd per day) compares to that of competitors like Homeexchange (300 thousand per month) and Lovehomeswap (160 thousand). Homeexchange says it has 150k “subscribers in 145 countries”, compared to Holidayswap’s claimed 250k users in 185 countries 3 years ago, and a million today. So quite how the £330 million valuation quoted recently in a London “Times” newspaper is reached is hard to see.
As a final “reality check”: on Trustpilot, information “written by the company” says “Holiday Swap is the world leader in home exchange vacations. With over 1,000,000 users in 185 countries”. But it has only 57 Trustpilot reviews, the earliest dating from just over 14 months ago, which is strange for a business started in 2017 and claiming to have 250,000 users by 2020. All except three are 5 star reviews, 23 of them being posted on only 4 days in September and December 2022. (The other 3 are highly critical 1 or 2 star). By comparison, rival business Homeexchange’s Trustpilot reviews start from 2013 and total over 5200, almost 100 times more than Holidayswap’s 57, despite having only one sixth of Holidayswap’s claimed users.
One must hope that investors in this and Global Airlines have done their due diligence – certainly it seems questionable whether many other journalists have done so."
"Your assessment of the web traffic as being of the order of 1000 visits per month (i.e. 30-odd per day) compares to that of competitors like Homeexchange (300 thousand per month) and Lovehomeswap (160 thousand). Homeexchange says it has 150k “subscribers in 145 countries”, compared to Holidayswap’s claimed 250k users in 185 countries 3 years ago, and a million today. So quite how the £330 million valuation quoted recently in a London “Times” newspaper is reached is hard to see.
As a final “reality check”: on Trustpilot, information “written by the company” says “Holiday Swap is the world leader in home exchange vacations. With over 1,000,000 users in 185 countries”. But it has only 57 Trustpilot reviews, the earliest dating from just over 14 months ago, which is strange for a business started in 2017 and claiming to have 250,000 users by 2020. All except three are 5 star reviews, 23 of them being posted on only 4 days in September and December 2022. (The other 3 are highly critical 1 or 2 star). By comparison, rival business Homeexchange’s Trustpilot reviews start from 2013 and total over 5200, almost 100 times more than Holidayswap’s 57, despite having only one sixth of Holidayswap’s claimed users.
One must hope that investors in this and Global Airlines have done their due diligence – certainly it seems questionable whether many other journalists have done so."
I've also posted some of my last comment on Miller's blog, with some additional research....
"Your assessment of the web traffic as being of the order of 1000 visits per month (i.e. 30-odd per day) compares to that of competitors like Homeexchange (300 thousand per month) and Lovehomeswap (160 thousand). Homeexchange says it has 150k “subscribers in 145 countries”, compared to Holidayswap’s claimed 250k users in 185 countries 3 years ago, and a million today. So quite how the £330 million valuation quoted recently in a London “Times” newspaper is reached is hard to see.
As a final “reality check”: on Trustpilot, information “written by the company” says “Holiday Swap is the world leader in home exchange vacations. With over 1,000,000 users in 185 countries”. But it has only 57 Trustpilot reviews, the earliest dating from just over 14 months ago, which is strange for a business started in 2017 and claiming to have 250,000 users by 2020. All except three are 5 star reviews, 23 of them being posted on only 4 days in September and December 2022. (The other 3 are highly critical 1 or 2 star). By comparison, rival business Homeexchange’s Trustpilot reviews start from 2013 and total over 5200, almost 100 times more than Holidayswap’s 57, despite having only one sixth of Holidayswap’s claimed users.
One must hope that investors in this and Global Airlines have done their due diligence – certainly it seems questionable whether many other journalists have done so."
"Your assessment of the web traffic as being of the order of 1000 visits per month (i.e. 30-odd per day) compares to that of competitors like Homeexchange (300 thousand per month) and Lovehomeswap (160 thousand). Homeexchange says it has 150k “subscribers in 145 countries”, compared to Holidayswap’s claimed 250k users in 185 countries 3 years ago, and a million today. So quite how the £330 million valuation quoted recently in a London “Times” newspaper is reached is hard to see.
As a final “reality check”: on Trustpilot, information “written by the company” says “Holiday Swap is the world leader in home exchange vacations. With over 1,000,000 users in 185 countries”. But it has only 57 Trustpilot reviews, the earliest dating from just over 14 months ago, which is strange for a business started in 2017 and claiming to have 250,000 users by 2020. All except three are 5 star reviews, 23 of them being posted on only 4 days in September and December 2022. (The other 3 are highly critical 1 or 2 star). By comparison, rival business Homeexchange’s Trustpilot reviews start from 2013 and total over 5200, almost 100 times more than Holidayswap’s 57, despite having only one sixth of Holidayswap’s claimed users.
One must hope that investors in this and Global Airlines have done their due diligence – certainly it seems questionable whether many other journalists have done so."
All this fakery has to be for some kind of ultrrior motive not concerned iny anyway with making either compsny viable.
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The Boy Wonder preparing to launch into India and Pakistan...
Global Airlines CEO Confirms Interest in Pakistan, India Flights - AVS (aviationsourcenews.com)
Global Airlines CEO Confirms Interest in Pakistan, India Flights - AVS (aviationsourcenews.com)
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So when you mentioned "they," you were actually referring to Global and their intended fleet of four Airbus A380s. Rather than suggesting Emirates eventually operating x4 daily A380 flights into STN.
I understand what you actually meant now, but hey, "I still want what you're using." 🤗
But come on, these sort of topics and questions are irrelevant really as we all know that there will be no great outcome from all of this. I give the guy credit, though, for his enthusiasm, but if this operation actually starts, I'll be totally shocked. I can assure you.
Oh, perhaps I should be asking Mr. Asquith if I can have some of what's he's using, he looks the type 🤔
I understand what you actually meant now, but hey, "I still want what you're using." 🤗
But come on, these sort of topics and questions are irrelevant really as we all know that there will be no great outcome from all of this. I give the guy credit, though, for his enthusiasm, but if this operation actually starts, I'll be totally shocked. I can assure you.
Oh, perhaps I should be asking Mr. Asquith if I can have some of what's he's using, he looks the type 🤔
No matter what anyone is smoking, Global are fast running out of options to setup anything at any London airport with a 380. Perhaps Manston!
Busy airport gates leaving no room for new entrants.
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With no sign of additional A380 capable gates at Gatwick, let's see how the conversion goes at Stansted between MAG & Emirates.
"I know the meeting invite was headed A380, but we want you to move your well established B777 operations to a new gate, I know you are a flagship operations are a great selling point for us and you pay your bills on time but we want you to move because we have a risky enterprise which will have cash flow problems from day one but we feel it is our best interest. Sorry you are investing loads of money in a new lounge for premium customers and that will produce a reduced service to our and your customers but it makes sense for us..........PS will you still upgrade to x4 daily in the not to distant future?"
"I know the meeting invite was headed A380, but we want you to move your well established B777 operations to a new gate, I know you are a flagship operations are a great selling point for us and you pay your bills on time but we want you to move because we have a risky enterprise which will have cash flow problems from day one but we feel it is our best interest. Sorry you are investing loads of money in a new lounge for premium customers and that will produce a reduced service to our and your customers but it makes sense for us..........PS will you still upgrade to x4 daily in the not to distant future?"
with work planned to commence on the first aircraft in January 2024. 
When will any INVESTIGATIVE Journalist ( an oxymoron?) give this lot a good looking-at?
like - 'follow the money' for one.
JETMS have facilities at their home base (Vilnius) and at Biggin Hill. Where will the A380 work take place?
And how many more employees will they have to take on for a project this big?