The 34-year-old airline novice who thinks he's Richard Branson

He’s completely right about the domestic airlines. I remember growing up how Delta was the top airline to fly out of my area. That you received the best service and quality of food on the flight. Now they all buy the same meals from the same service and cram seats into planes. They’re all the same now and if they’re all the same, price is the only differentiator.<p>I would happily pay extra for better comfort and service. I look forward to flying global someday.

I&#x27;ve been looking at various things slowly crappifying and just waiting for someone to come compete on quality an eat everyone&#x27;s lunch.<p>The thing about the race to the bottom is eventually someone comes along to gobble up all the goodwill that&#x27;s been squandered.

Well I for one wish the crazy bastard god speed.<p>I hope he pulls it off.

New York-London&#x2F;Paris is the graveyard of new airlines, especially those promising better service than the legacies: L&#x27;Avion, La Compagnie, MAXjet, OpenSkies, etc. I wish him luck, but it&#x27;s going to be <i>incredibly</i> hard to fill A380s of all things profitably without a massive feeder network and plenty of whales for the front of the plane.

I’m curious who is bankrolling this effort. According to the article, he founded “Holiday Swap”, and that gave him the cash to start Global Airlines. I could only find one investor.<p>That being said, based on what I’ve gathered, he might be starting the airlines with wet leased airplanes from HiFly[1]. So, my guess is this starts as a custom livery, and custom services.<p>That being said, this seems weird on the “sniff test” basis, and seems very personality driven — which we’ve seen be successful before (wework, Tesla, Apple, FTX, Virgin Group). I think if they’re able to pivot from a reality distortion field to a viable business, this will be wonderful!<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.prnewswire.com&#x2F;news-releases&#x2F;global-airlines-to-contract-hi-fly-to-accelerate-a380-entry-into-service-programme-301941536.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.prnewswire.com&#x2F;news-releases&#x2F;global-airlines-to-...</a>

Hasn&#x27;t fancy London to NYC flights been tried multiple times?

Someone linked this[0] on a post here recently about how suits were making a comeback. Anything to suggest this isn&#x27;t just the same?<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.paulgraham.com&#x2F;submarine.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.paulgraham.com&#x2F;submarine.html</a>