British teen launches airline from bedroom


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Last Update: Tuesday, July 19, 2005. 7:21am (AEST)

British teen launches airline from bedroom

A British teenager says he has launched a lost-cost airline from his bedroom, becoming possibly the youngest airline boss in the world.

"I started flying lessons when I was 16 and my friends started joking about us buying a plane together and flying people around the world," said Daniel Reilly, an 18-year-old student, from Maghull, in Merseyside, northern England.

"It was just a joke really but I took it a bit more seriously and decided to look into it," he said.

Mr Reilly decided to explore how to establish an airline as part of a business studies course that he was taking as part of his high school A-Level subjects.

"I called round a few airlines and asked how they had done it and I slowly realised it was quite achievable," he said.

Mr Reilly, who attends Deyes High School in Maghull, showed his project for Nexus Airline to a financial adviser who found backers for the business.

Initially Nexus will operate services from an airport in Liverpool, northern England, to the Spanish Canary Island destinations of Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and Fuerteventura.

Customers will be able to book flights - which cost from 50 pounds ($116) one-way - from Friday, with the first flights scheduled to take off on November 1.

In the meantime, Mr Reilly was awaiting the results of his A-Levels in business studies, English language, sociology and general studies.

"Most of my school friends are now going off to university but I'm in charge of an airline," he said.

"I don't know if I will be the next (Virgin boss) Richard Branson but I certainly wouldn't say no."

-AFP

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200507/s1417150.htm

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Maybe I missed that line but to have an Airline he should have a pleane a a place to land it. Do he has those?

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Initially Nexus will operate services from an airport in Liverpool, northern England, to the Spanish Canary Island destinations of Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and Fuerteventura.

Liverpool Airport, he'll be taking off from there, as an airline you can just rent space at the airport.

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hey might be a airline. But does he give free airline peanuts?

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Well even the big airliners don't even do that anymore. Cost savings... :(

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i was told about it in my Business Lesson, he has a Cessna light aircraft apparently.

It will take alot of capital and funds before he can afford airliners which stretch into the millions :p

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*Builds a teletransporter in his bedroom*

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Bill Gates started Microsoft from his bedroom and Steve Jobs started Apple from a garage... :happy:

anything is possible if you want it to make it happen and you have the passion to do it... :happy: :yes:

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Bill Gates started Microsoft from his bedroom and Steve Jobs started Apple from a garage... :happy:

anything is possible if you want it to make it happen and you have the passion to do it...  :happy:  :yes:

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true thing, shame most of us are lazy arses, or is that just me?

Everytime I read something like that, makes me want to go out and make myself my own company empire :rofl:

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