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Founded in 2002 Flyjet quickly established itself as a "can-do" charter airline, picking up a variety of interesting contracts which saw their small fleet of 757s operating across Europe, Africa, Asia and North America. Unfortunately they bit off more than they could chew and found themselves repeatedly looking at lengthy delays leading to the loss of contracts and even an intervention from the UK Authorities. When all looked lost Flyjet was acquired by start-up airline Silverjet with a view to using Flyjet as a "pre-packaged airline start-up kit" to launch their own long-haul business class services and ultimately seeing the demise of Flyjet...

Chapter Contents
00:00 Intro
00:13 Flyjet founded
09:27 The 767 Debacle
13:49 Heavy Turbulence
16:05 Boardroom Changes
18:04 Silverjet Takeover
21:49 Flyjet Faces the Axe
23:45 So What Went Wrong?
28:51 Outro

This episode was a nightmare to put together with countless things causing delays meaning it took about 6 weeks longer to finish (script re-writes, major writers block, puppy shenanigans and even a week in a log cabin - though I took my laptop to do a redraft of course), even putting the final 8 minutes together on this Saturday night after being up since 2am and flying to Morocco and back but I'm pleased to say that it made it up in time to release in the morning. I hope that you enjoy this one as we begin to look into the battle of the Atlantic business class airlines...

I mention a number of airlines in this video which have previously been covered in the Grounded Series, these include;

Air Scandic
Air Scandic was a small independent charter airline known for its MS Paint approach to aircraft livery designs and painfully long flight delays
   • Grounded: Air Scandic  

Islandsflug
This small Icelandic airline formed through the merger of a flight school and a tiny regional airline to become one of Europe's largest ACMI carriers, operating aircraft on behalf of numerous airlines across Europe
   • Grounded: Islandsflug / ICEBIRD Airlines  

Excel Airways
Following their successful re-branding from Sabre Airways, Excel Airways would grow to become one of Europe's largest travel companies. This episode looks at how Excel grew and how the seeds of their own destruction were sewn...
The Rise of Excel Airways -    • Grounded: Excel Airways  
The Fall of XL Airways -    • Grounded: XL Airways  

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