WOW! Not really sure where to start with this one, but obviously you are entitled to your opinion.

Right first off, my training, if you had followed what was going on you would have seen that in October last year I came off the APP at OAT due to family issues, I have since continued with OAT on a modular course, I took leave in February to concentrate on the airline until which point that I can resume my training….it’s a suprising amount of work to run an airline, let alone complete all 14 ATPL groundschool exams, and then complete the actual flying.

Alpha1 Airways, was originally registered as @lpha1 Airways ltd on the 22nd of July last year, we then reregistered as you have noticed the day before the press announcemnet, this was because we replaced the @ with an A and our shareholders changed as I had split from my previous business partner. The original company was registered in Eastbourne, where my former business partner was based.

I never got round to registering superflyboy.com, for the simple fact I ended up being far too busy with training.

I was indeed a youth worker for three years working with 9 to 12 year olds at St Andrew Church here in Oxford. I started that when I was 14 years old as a helper before leading parts of a group myself. I ended up as one of the senior Youth Workers.

The web site went down because we were originally unable to update via FTP, for your information we were paying over £1,450 per year for the hosting. That problem has since been resolved as you can see. The booking engine wasn’t providing accurate availability information and so we dumped the previous team and have since taken up with Nextres (Also made SweFly’s bookig engine) who are working on our new system.

Finally, it would be a bloody stupid thing to do to get so much publicity for something that would eventually come back to bit me in the arse if it weren’t true. Not to mention the amount of money it costs to get a PR agent who can get such publicity.

So there you have it. Sorry to disappoint you, but there really is no exciting story behind this, just a bit of bad luck and a delay in launch…but then again, you’re entitled to your opinion.

I wish you good luck for the future Martin.

Thanks buddy!

Thanks for the support guys, I totally agree everyone is free to have their own opinions and I don’t begrudge anyone for it.

The main reason for the dealy lies in the fact that our new investors are based in the United States and there is one hell of a lot of political red tape to get through before the funds can be released to us. This is taking slightly longer than anticipated. However, neary everything else is ready to go and all being well it should be a matter of one or two weeks before we can announce everything. There isn’t really any on off on off factor involved, much like nearly every other airline out there it was on and then it was delayed, no big deal there, the press certainly don’t seem to think so and all of the consultants, pilots, cabin crew and countless other staff we have working for us tend to agree.

We are all working very hard to give you the very best service we can and once we have cut through the red tape which will be in the next week or so, we will be able to offer you what we believe will be one of the best regional air travel products in the UK, flying from Oxford and Cambridge to two additional UK destinations as well as continuing with the shuttle service between the two cities. All will become clear very soon.

We’re having to keep it all under wraps at the moment. The second I can release some info you guys will be the first to know. It’s all looking very good though and I think you’ll all be quite excited with the news when we release it!

I flew LHR to Prague with them several times in the mid 90s on both Fokkers and 737s.

Sorry I couldn’t make it guys. Work got the better of me. Sounds like you had a great day. I look forward to the photos and report.

I might just have a day off and I’m working on getting hold of an ID90 ticket to come up to MAN on the 12th! Interesting routing if it works though it will be LCY-MAN-ORK-STN!