Baltia/USGlobal Airways Changes Their Business Plan... Again - 737

Baltia/USGlobal Airways Changes Their Business Plan... Again

Ben Schlappig — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:14:21 +0000

This is just so amusing to me that I can't not write about it. For those of you not familiar with USGlobal Airways, until recently they were known as Baltia Air Lines, the oldest airline startup that never took to the skies. Here's the latest update, which I suspect shouldn't come as much of a…

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Dan — Thu, 15 May 2025 10:50:29 +0000

Well that aged welll @Karen. Are you guys at Baltia still planning to fly from New York to ST PETERSBURG IN 2025? !!!!!!11!!111!!!1!111!!!! ;)

cert dog — Fri, 11 May 2018 22:06:01 +0000

Well, its finally over. SEC has suspended trading on BLTA. Yet still, there are believers that somehow they'll come back from this "setback." Truly unbelievable.

JAS — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 06:11:00 +0000

They even went as far as hiring people on the songbird deal knowing they could not pay them and never mentioned it to the new folks. Tony, Sheryl, are a joke...I would urge everyone out there with bogus checks, promises, and anything in writing to seek legal counsel in collection. The aviation industry has kept them from operating as an airline because they are not fit to do so, perhaps state, federal, and local laws could keep them from continuing the scams they are running. Someone has to be responsible for the fraud and actions of the officers of this company. Oh yeah, the favorite saying is "we will have funding next week". If they ever saw any funding, it went in somebody's pocket before paying employees.

AdamW — Sat, 02 Dec 2017 20:33:32 +0000

You are a little crazy! @Karen. @Lucky..time to block this one.

Alex — Sat, 02 Dec 2017 12:55:57 +0000

I don't like bens criticism of "La Compagnie" but think Baltia is well deserved.

Kerry — Sat, 02 Dec 2017 11:39:38 +0000

@OceanRain17, agree. I can’t believe there are any legitimate investors remaining (inside the US at least). Would be amazed if this was not functioning as a vehicle for laundering cash. These updates are hilarious and informative, thanks Lucky!

him — Sat, 02 Dec 2017 08:54:39 +0000

Their HQ should be moved to Berlin

scott sullivan — Sat, 02 Dec 2017 05:44:35 +0000

@Karen and @Chris, you both come across as having skin in the game with that verging on fraudulent pretend airline. I think it would make a fabulous case study for a show like 60 Minutes. @Ben, keep up the great articles :)

CraigTPA — Sat, 02 Dec 2017 03:08:34 +0000

@Karen - so you wouldn't call an airline flying between Baltimore, Trenton, Islip, and Albany a regional airline? @Chris - Ben spends time (probably not much, but some) bashing Baltia, or US Global, or whatever they'll be called next week, because it's just sad to see these people continue to delude themselves (or anyone they try to sell stock to) that they actually have a viable business plan. It's just like the way the deluded team that kept trying to start production of an upgraded Fokker100 were bashed for years on airliners.net..at first you kind of wanted them to succeed, but it just got pathetic after a while. And Baltia is even stranger than Rekkof was - they bought a 747 and let it sit for OVER 20 YEARS. You'd think somewhere in there the little light that says "wow, this is really stupid!" would have come on. So we mock because the total lack of anything resembling business (or common) sense creates a vacuum that must be filled.