Global Airlines buys its second "first" A380
It could be said that there is qualquadra that not what, because Global Airlines the British startup that aims to fly with [...]
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It could be said that there is something that is not what, because Global Airlines the British startup that aims to fly a fleet of only A380s just made a very cryptic, or rather original, announcement.
Global Airlines buys decommissioned A380 from China Southern
We had written in the past about the Willingness of the new company to buy decommissioned A380s from other carriers, honestly I had bet a few euros that the choice would fall on Malayasian or Thai ones, but then the wallet must have prevailed....
Those of the two Southeast Asian companies. have been stationary for 4 years and to bring them back to fly would cost much more than the value of the aircraft itself, while the fleet of the only Chinese airline to have bought the giant Airbus Have only been stationary for a few months, as they were grounded in late 2022 And that they flew throughout the pandemic. This means regular maintenance and lower costs of awakening from hibernation.
The news output on Aviation Week and bounced around the Web confirming the backers' willingness to actually fly A380s. Supporting Global, whose debut has already been delayed by more than a year, will be Hi Fly the only operator in the world to have flown a second-hand A380.
The math doesn't add up
The strange thing, however, is that in the past Global had already announced that it had bought its "first" A380, a third-hand plane. In fact, the A380 in question flew for over 10 years in Singapore Airlines livery, and then ended up in the hands of Hi Fly, which flew it, a few times , before grounding it and selling it right back to Global.
Then a new statement had arrived in which the company announced that it had bought three more A380s, a fleet of four planes to be refitted from scratch and brought back to perfect condition to fly safely.
Here at TFC, we are passengers, not engineers, but what we have seen is that getting a behemoth like the A380 back into the skies takes time, money, and specialized personnel. Both Emirates and Lufthansa use hagars in Manila where engineers from the German group work for several carriers on the very A380.
To date, however, there are no photos, news, or details of where Global Airlines is working to make its fleet as unique as told in various releases. There is one shot on the company's website and then a couple of renders.
Now all that remains is to wait, certain is that if it is not a publicity stunt to launch some kind of product it will be interesting to see how many flights this company will be able to operate.
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