As longtime OMAAT readers know, I love covering airline startups, regardless of how realistic they are. Well, the newest airline startup is a UK-based company named Himalaya Jet, and my goodness…
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Would love to see it succeed, but if they cannot produce more than a very basic website, showing a completely different plane type than a Boeing 787, it is hard to take seriously. The company head office at LHR Terminal 2 appears a little unlikely.
They say that Richard Branson once said "If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline". This sounds like exactly that.
Sure, 18 planes by 2026. That will be a great year. Kanye will be president, and it will also be the first time in 76 years that Lucy doesn't remove the football when Charlie Brown runs to kick it.
Nepal's civil aviation authority is on the European Union’s bad actors list to the point where airlines operating with one of their certificates are not allowed in EU airspace. There could be a certain logic that an airline from that region operating with an Indian certification might gain business from folks who wouldn’t fly an airline on the EU list at a time (and a lot of businesses won’t put employees on an airline not allowed in the EU for insurance reasons) when there’s a big interest in tourism in Nepal.
I can see some the math might look tempting at first. You can contract employees from other airline service companies at stations. The real issue is that an airline starting small and focused on long haul will end up with meltdown situations with 12-24 hours delays, that is a public relations nightmare.
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I'll place Himalaya Jet as one which will not take flight.
I could see them doing a code share with BALTIA to get more traffic onto their planes from the east coast US.
How can someone write this in a startup article and about an airline jet "Where does Himalaya Jet fall?" 🙂
OK, it's not going to happen.
But the question where the answer is less obvious to me (as for several of these "airlines" is "Why are they doing it?"
Which might be connected to "Who are they trying to scam?"
New investors, existing investors (they already have somebody signed up), a government agency E.g. for subsidies, putative passengers, other?
Actually, if Branson ever said that, he was simply appropriating a very old joke about aviation in general, not just airlines:
"If you want to make a small fortune in the aviation business, start with large fortune."
I don’t think they’re going to fly to PPT. Not enough demand between Tahiti and the Himalayas. Great way to light money on fire.
One major issue is the pricing of these types of airlines and that they do not have enough history to have partners
Airline announces they'll be starting out with several leased widebody Boeing 787s..
...proceed to launch a website with a narrowbody Airbus as main photo.
I looked at their website. If the intend to lease and operate Boeing 787-8s, why do they get presented with a Boeing 777 painting and taken in front of a Triple Seven backdrop. Something not quite right there.
As an aviation enthusiast, keeping eye on their website updates, it’s fascinating destinations for long haul Carrier
All I can say is what happened to the fanfare around six years back when an airline supposedly going to contribute profits to charity never took off and also Hahn Airways which was going to satisfy the UK to India market, all pipe dreams.
The passenger and cargo services’ demand for the United Kingdom is very high pertinent to the Nepalese market. As per the Nepal Immigration’s official website, a total of 47,206 passengers arrived in Nepal from the UK and 48,814 passengers departed to the UK from Nepal. A total of more than 80,000 Nepalese lives in the United Kingdom. Thus, there is a good opportunity for British Airways to capture some good portion of this market share by starting its offline services into Nepal through Direct Air representation. We believe that this will help to further strengthen the economic and social ties between Nepal and UK.
The passenger and cargo services’ demand for the United Kingdom is very high pertinent to the Nepalese market. As per the Nepal Immigration’s official website, a total of 47,206 passengers arrived in Nepal from the UK and 48,814 passengers departed to the UK from Nepal. A total of more than 80,000 Nepalese lives in the United Kingdom. Thus, there is a good opportunity for Himalyanjet to capture some good portion of this market share by starting its offline services into Nepal through direct Air representation. We believe that this will help to further strengthen the economic and social ties between Nepal and UK.
Being a Nepalese citizen I will see it as a market gaining strategy seeing demand of direct flight to and from nepal connecting different European and American continent. It will be the breakthrough to have a hassle free way of travelling as now there is a long layover in between.
The airline claims that it will launch in September 2023 (in around a month) using Boeing 787s. Can,t find any information how to book.
Pre booking starts today (Monday, 4th September, 2023) from 14:00 hrs BST. the airline is basically targeting the Nepali Diaspora in the UK. it totals to somewhere around 30-35 thousand in number.
The Logic behind the September- launch is the festive season. Dashain (Dusshera in India) and Tihaar (Diwali in India) are the two major festivities in Nepal. Taking into consideration the timings of these festivals, the airline is offering massive discounts in its ticket prices enticing the Nepal-Bases UK citizens to track back to their roots during the season.
There is a logic.
I guess the author was unaware about these things...
They are selling tickets at a very high rate according to Nepali media!
12000 bookings in the first 24 hours!
Himalayan jet so far is not reliable even before start. The booking site is not working; it doesn't allow you to choose the airport you want to fly from and the destination..
They are not responding to the comments but are only keeping the ones that's praising them blindly. This is fishy !
They have not sold a single booking as they are still nowhere near ready.
The 12,000 bookings are simply people that completed an enquiry form…