Global Airlines has just put its first flights on sale. I’m so confused… sometimes reality is crazier than fiction.
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Reality really is stranger than fiction. Who knew a Skadden partner making over $6MM would post so often as to make Diamond status on OMAAT?
@Lucky you owe it to us! Please!?!?!? You’re *literally* the most qualified person in the world to take this flight and report back. I’ll even send you my Global Airlines sweatshirt to wear on the flight 🙂
Interestingly, there's only 1 F seat left on the 18th. This might be your last chance, @Ben!
If I had to guess, when they raised some money there was a condition attached to operate flights by a particular date (perhaps even from separate airports) and that's the only reason they're doing these initial flights -- to satisfy the conditions of a fundraise which may either unlock more money or where failure to do so has penalties.
Do it Ben!!!
You owe us readers. We pay your salary. Use some of that for an inside scoop on Global Airlines' inaugural flight.
I'm sure that will be your most read review of 2025!
Don't encourage Ben. Global is a nothingburger and their inaugural will be a fiasco, or a bore. But it kinda pushes his buttons and he might not have the power to resist.
You really do have to just book this. Worst case charge it back if the whole thing never materialises
Something like this makes the most sense as an explanation of why they’d do this.
Flying Europeans to the US...
...at a time when Europeans don't want to visit the US. >.>
I registered for this email a few weeks ago and got the notification that the tickets were up for sale.
I had looked earlier in the day. It saY there's four seats available in first. When I had looked earlier today it had said there were two seats available, however it would allow me to choose any seat for the booking.
Legal daylight robbery? CSN A380s aren't worth $9K, no wifi, entertainment system is 2010 standard, dogshit maintenance.
Hey VT-CIE or whatever name of the month you're using.
This IS the time to pressure OMAAT.
Visualize flying Fyre festival and show Tim Dunn what premium is all about.
I am with the guys encouraging Ben to do it. In all honesty, trip reviews must become pretty boring to write after a while. Yes - Emirates has unlimited caviar, Austrian has great coffee. This could be an epic review whether it's great or terrible.
Plus - it's a shortish flight, assuming the plane takes off and lands, why not?
As long as you have good trip insurance, I'm admittedly with the mob here.
It'd make for an entertaining review, even if it's a s**tshow. ...or it might be fantastic and then we will know one of the trustpilot reviews is probably not fake. 😉
I wonder if they’re reducing inventory to create the illusion of interest and push people to buy. Given the rest of their story… it wouldn’t surprise me.
do you think they’ll even let Ben fly? Surely they must know this won’t live up to the hype. So it wouldn’t surprise me if they would just want it to be fans and not real reviews.
I like that the fares are changeable but they only have a single flight scheduled for each route.
Guys doing great work.
Strongly recommend to visit Glasgow and take that flight.
Having followed this since the beginning, it would be quite interesting to see this through the lens of your eye, Ben. It’s a lot of money that could surely go to something more interesting or useful, but oh lord it’s tempting.
I know right? You’d think they’d be busy with all the pro bono legal work for Trump family. Tracking those hours must be interesting
Probably some seats on inaugural flight are reserved for company owners and maybe some special guests.
Michael O'Leary may be interested. Possible acquisition target...
Using HiFly AOC does not imply HiFly cabin crews. It is very much possible that the flights will have Global's CC.
And as a side note, some people - including aviation geeks - live in Europe and don't need to "position* here 🙂 I assume that's the target group of this .
I'm sure if Ben does a gofundme for this (if he's unwilling to pay out of pocket), he'll raise enough for his hubby and bub for the tickets and they can do an economy, business and first class review (bub in first of course).
This would definitely be interesting. I don't know if it's 5k-9k interesting, but at least you can expense it.
Can we stop this myth that Europeans don't want to fly to the US until there's hard data to back it up?
Exactly, so much of the press was about their rather innovative cabin interiors, can't help but think that commencing operations using a retired China Southern interior will worsen their reputation even more.
At least Riyadh Air had the sense to delay their launch until they received their own aircraft with their own interiors, and not damage their reputation from the start by launching with second hand Saudia planes.
@Samo I think the question should be does Global Airlines even have their own trained and certified cabin crew. That may be the case but I am not sure.
Could also the plane never takes off and you’re just rebooked onto BA. This might not even be a big violation of contract of carriage and they might still make a profit / minimize losses.
This is up there with the new La Premiere for the most important flight you should review Ben
I would assume they will fill this flight with influencers to get as much free publicity as possible.
Well, from where I'm sat, I won't even consider transitting through the USA, even though my ESTA is still valid (when I did, indeed just go through Houston).
I don't think I've had anybody ask me this year for advice in visiting either as I have visited pretty often.
Hey Ben, Do we need to start a petition or did you already book your economy class ticket?
I am desperate to know if Global Airlines offers paid upgrades and if they match your Starlux status?
Ben, so you are tempted to book this flight. Make sure you can do a chargeback.
How will it compare with Air France's La Premiere ?
Global's exclusive lounges at GLA and MAN with Alain Ducasse catering lol
Its not really a global airlines flight. Its operated by hi-fly, so it'll be a fully wet lease flight. The only thing 'global airlines' about it might be the logo on the ticket.
How many hours has this plane done in the air recently? Will it reliably fly all the way across the Atlantic without a problem? What are the divert airports? Shannon? Reykjavik? Nuuk?
Should Ben book a night in Reykjavik Edition now, to ensure he doesn't have to spend the night on the terminal floor?
So many questions.
Just to clarify, I think most of us will be satisfied with you booking a ticket in Economy. No need to spend $9K on a First Class ticket.
This could be the first ever medium haul Economy Class review on OMAAT!
Do it Ben. Set up a gofundme if you really need to, I'd for sure throw some cash your way to make this happen
Data points from trying to do a dummy booking:
-Was unable to select a seat. While a seat map was shown, All economy seats were "unavailable"
-Payment screen was weird. It was using a Shopify/Google Pay. had to click like 3 times.
-Only VISA/MC accepted. No Amex which I though was weird because they had some deal with Amex previously announced
Very strange.
You're probably new here.
Last time Ben setup crowdfunding it didn't end well.
Hi Ben, interesting article. But you know what also would be a great topic: „Booked: My Celtic adventure to the Scottish Museum of Transport and Travel with Global Airlines.“
Regardless of whether this airline succeed or not, the CEO has done something that you (Ben) won't probably be able to replicate, ever. He was able to launch his airline which is probably a lot more than you will ever achieve in your life.