I don’t know about this, but they ahve a website and ATI seems to have picked the story up…
http://www.excelsisairways.com/
Purported UK start-up Excelsis intends Q400 domestic links
David Kaminski-Morrow, London (24Jul09, 14:03 GMT, 199 words)There are preliminary indications that a new carrier is intending to open domestic services to London City Airport, using Bombardier Q400 turboprops.
The carrier identifies itself as Excelsis Airways and gives little further information except an Internet site statement saying that it plans to operate between London City and Durham Tees Valley Airport in the northern UK.
Excelsis claims it is recruiting personnel and will launch services “later this year”, adding that it will be “providing a daily service” on the route – although it confusingly later states that the link will be “three times a day”.
“As it continues to grow, Excelsis will be announcing other regional destinations around the UK,” it says. “Over the next few years the airlinewill create several hundred jobs.”
It also says it will become the first airline to be based in the region since Newcastle’s Northeast Airlines, which was absorbed into British Airways in the early 1970s.
No-one could be reached at Excelsis to clarify aspects such as funding and ownership, or to give further information.
Excelsis gives a business address in Darlington, near to Tees Valley Airport, and the UK’s companies register contains an entry for Excelsis Aviation at the same location.
Source: Air Transport Intelligence news
By: gatwickjosh - 27th July 2009 at 21:31
Nope Heslop isnt wrong about LHR. Its just changed.
This “venture” has been known about a little while, previously they wanted to operate a 737-400 in a full executive layout on a triangle route from DTV-LHR-LCY-DTV. Obviously this would never happen, unprofitable, unsustainable impossible to get slots, land at LCY to name a few reasons. A couple weeks back the concept changed, to what we see now.
This airline in my opinion is just a school boy project, too many mistakes from the start to be considered any more than that. I mean now, they are pretty copying word for word content from http://www.flyporter.com , with things like staff requiring a Canadian visa and being within short commute of Toronto.
As much as i do think there is a small demand for services to Teeside from London, these guys have got nothing near what is needed to make such a route succeed and if they ever did take to the air, i doubt it would be very long until they disappeared again
Josh
By: rdc1000 - 27th July 2009 at 17:17
It was mentioned on local news that they plan to fly DTV to LHR next year
I think the local news was probably wrong then as they’re saying LCY on their website, and they’d be unlikely to get slots at LHR.
By: heslop01 - 27th July 2009 at 16:43
It was mentioned on local news that they plan to fly DTV to LHR next year
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