New Airline

Too bad I'm not rich. This new airline looks really cool!

According to the London Telegraph, Fly First is aiming for the Concorde niche in the airline market. The airline would have two Boeing 757-200 planes that would have four cabins of twelve seats each. That's 48 passengers on a plane normally configured for 228 passengers.

The seats would be capable of becoming flat beds. There would be changing rooms, phones, fax machines, and maybe internet access.

The price tag? A mere £3,360 ($6,142), if I'm reading the article correctly. It says, "Passengers, having paid £3,360 for the return flight, will be chauffeur-driven to Luton airport, will arrive 45 minutes before take off at 6.45am. They will land at Newark airport, a short distance from Manhattan, at 9am - ahead of other European flights." So it's possible the round-trip cost is double that. Oh well, if you're rich, I guess it doesn't matter.

This is all academic at this point, because the head of the new company, Hamish Taylor, still needs to raise the capital (£25 million by June 10) to get the airline in business. Once that happens, they only need to average 25% capacity on their flights to break even.