Hans Airways secures new investment for its Birmingham to Amritsar flights

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• Nick says:

  16 Nov16 November 03:45

  BA restrict fresh flowers to a small single bud in first class lavatories, giving Hans Airways an opportunity to make a name for themselves with complimentary gladioli on every seat.

  • G Flyer says:

    16 Nov16 November 09:04

    Lol. Ha, I thought exactly the same possum when I saw who the new Chairman was (albeit slightly different spelling)!

• Peter says:

  16 Nov16 November 06:24

  What a strange name. While I understand it’s Sanskrit for swan, I can’t help thinking that only Heidi Airways would be more bizarre.

  • Manya says:

    16 Nov16 November 06:55

    If it resonates with the target market then it’s probably not as strange as it might seem.

    • AJA says:

      16 Nov16 November 08:07

      As long as it does resonate with the target market. It can go wrong as Toyota found to their cost when they launched the MR2 in France, the pronunciation of which in French was akin to merde – not the image they were intending – no one wants to drive the Toyota sh1t 🙂

  • Bagoly says:

    16 Nov16 November 08:42

    Only for those more familiar with German language and culture.

    Hello Kitty, part of Eva Air, seems to be doing OK !

• WaynedP says:

  16 Nov16 November 07:03

  Will Chairman’s first public statement be “Onwards and upwards, Possums !” ?

  • AJA says:

    16 Nov16 November 08:01

    I thought that too 🙂 Having Dame Edna on board might be a double edged sword though.

    Not that it would be any better to go with Sir Les

• John T says:

  16 Nov16 November 09:21

  The thought of Barry Humphries running a start-up airline to India has really made me giggle.

• Gulz says:

  16 Nov16 November 10:54

  Another piece of news that seems to have gone amiss is that Tata (owners of Air India, Vistara, AI Express and Air Asia) are going to consolidate their portfolio into two airlines – a traditional airline (under the brand of Air India) and a low cost carrier. They’ve bought out Singapore Airlines shares from Vistara to be able to do this.

  • Nick says:

    16 Nov16 November 11:40

    A delay is probably a blessing in disguise. The new airline will struggle under the current visa regime – it’s almost impossible for British passport holders to get visas for India at the moment. A lot of the Indian heritage customer base has OCI cards, but far from all – and inevitably there’s a significant delay issuing these as well.

• Kevin says:

  16 Nov16 November 12:15

  Who in their right mind would set up a new airline in todays world. Far easier ways to make money.

  • John T says:

    16 Nov16 November 12:30

    They’ve taken their time and done their homework. There’s plenty of point-to-point traffic between non-London UK cities and secondary Indian cities with people presumably willing to pay for the convenience. A 3 to 4 times a week service to see if it works doesn’t sound crazy.
    There’s fierce competition in economy from the ME3 between UK and India but probably a good market for a decent premium economy seat given only Emirates has the product and they are very expensive.

  • Rob says:

    16 Nov16 November 12:41

    I agree … always surprised that these niche start-ups raise any cash, given that the failure rate is basically 100% ex-UK.

    • Anuj says:

      16 Nov16 November 15:18

      There’s demand for flights to india’s regional cities from the UK. They don’t even need to compete on price. Even if they charge higher prices the savings for a family are substantial as you often have to get an expensive cab to heathrow then another cab from delhi in a hours long uncomfortable journey.
      Direct flights from Birmingham dried up after covid so there isn’t much competition besides Air India.

• SamG says:

  16 Nov16 November 15:29

  UK261 is a killer for any of these single aircraft operators – the aircraft will inevitably go tech / be disrupted and they’ll either have to hire in hifly etc at high cost or cough up ~£520pp each time – something most people are aware of these days.

  Aer Lingus UK is a good example of this – A330 Manchester flights often run hours late or get cancelled. A storm in Orlando recently caused them to have to run extra MAN-DUB-Orlando flights to catch up (after cancelling Barbados flights for multiple days) which at least they do have an option to do in house

• Hem says:

  17 Nov17 November 06:38

  I couldn’t understand why the chairman was interviewed standing at a Turkish airline stand.
  Good luck to them, the demand is definitely there, see what the customer service will be like.

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