Start-up Global Airlines takes ownership of first A380

UK-based start-up Global Airlines announced in early February that it had acquired “full 100% ownership” of its first Airbus A380. Taking to X (formerly Twitter), the company’s founder and CEO James Asquith revealed that a former China Southern Airlines airframe (c/n 120) had been registered on the Maltese register as 9H-GLOBL. The 11-year-old jet, previously registered B-6140, was withdrawn from use in November 2022 and has been in storage at Mojave Air and Space Port since December that year. “Buying