Great Dane Airlines
 

Sounds like a big dog's breakfast.

They could be the dogs :mad:

All scheduled flights on 21 and 24 June seem to be sold out - but seats available at low-ish fares from 25 June. Perhaps a last minute hitch with getting hold of an aircraft and it being delayed by a few days ?

The first aircraft at least has already been painted.

https://www.skyliner-aviation.de/viewphoto.main?LC=&picid=10415

Stobart Air E195 on lease to Great Dane.

Looks smart, but it needs a picture of a Great Dane on the tailfin.

The leased aircraft, E195 EI-GGC, hasn't flown for at least 7 days according to FR24 so no recent proving flights by the look of it, although FR24 isn't infallible of course.

That's because it's been reregistered as OY-GDA :)

Ah, they would explain it! Good luck to them anyway.

Now that the absolute peak months of summer demand are over, does anyone know how Great Dane have been doing ?
I note that they are not offering scheduled flights on their website from Aalborg to Dublin or Nice beyond mid September or from Aalborg to Edinburgh beyond early October - it sounds like the airline is aware that leisure demand on these routes outside summer would likely be weak.

Maybe they might need some help from Sandy Toksvig!!!

I've no idea but it could be that they leased their aircraft short term and don't plan any winter activity.

From what I gather, they are in the market for specialist tour operators also outside Denmark. For example, they operated a weekly service for four weeks from CGN to GRX this August/September.

Great Dane airlines.
 

Just heard that Great Dane airlines, have just ceased operations, due to COVID and the effect it’s had on the aviation industrySuch a shame as those colleagues of mine who had dealings with them, said they were extremely professional outfit to work for.
As well as there own charter network, they also set leased their aircraft to operators and were one of the first to supply both aircraft and crew to Bamboo airways in Vietnam, whilst they recruited their own crew and whilst awaiting delivery of their own aircraft.

https://nordjyske.dk/nyheder/nordjyl...b-e8f0b24cb3c1

Declared bankrupt as of Monday 11-Oct-2021
Employees laid off

That's really sad indeed. They have a few aircraft parked up at my local Norwich airport uk, been there for many months.

I had presumed they had 'gone busto' ages ago. Was a weird model and was never going to work, covid or not,

Great Dane in the doghouse. :(

Another billionaire who is now a millionaire...

Seemed a very niche airline indeed.

Didn’t some of BE E195’s go to them?

It’s not really a new idea. They quickly gave up on the limited schedule flights and went for operating for others. Tour agencies and they did some work for Bamboo in Vietnam for a while.

Just obviously the tour operator work dried up last year and hasn’t fully recovered probably didn’t help them.

They probably should have tried to get more in to private charters but Denmark already has Sun Air for that side of things.

virginblue

You dont gamble with your own money...

I thought their aircraft had been flying all October and are now parked up in Billund and Copenhagen?

I think Eigild Bodker Christensen probably did actually, through his company SEBC II ApS.

I've advised a number of potential start-ups over the years and in a number of cases the Principal (owner) of the business was going to invest his own money. I cannot remember any case where I recommended that he do so!