Another teenager starts his own airline
I wish him luck but personally feel its doomed. Establish low cost players cannot make the Canary Islands work let alone a start up by an 18 year old.
At least he won't be competeing with Easyjet on any routes though.
Schoolboy launches airline from his bedroom
An A-level student has launched a no-frills airline from his bedroom in Merseyside.
Daniel Reilly, 18, from Maghull, is thought to be the youngest chief executive of an airline in the world.
He was inspired to set up Nexus Airlines after completing a school project on low-cost airlines. He is currently leasing a Boeing 737 plane from Futura International Airlines, based in Palma.
The teenager said: "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. It was just a joke really but I took it a bit more seriously and decided to look into it.
"I've always been interested in aviation so I decided to do my A-Level business studies project on setting up an airline. I called round a few airlines and asked how they had done it and I slowly realised it was quite achievable."
Daniel, who attends Deyes High School in Maghull, showed his project to a financial adviser who found backers for the business.
Initially the airline will operate services from Liverpool John Lennon Airport to Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and Fuerteventura from its new headquarters in Bradford, West Yorkshire.
Customers will be able to book flights - which cost from £50 one-way - from Friday, with the first flights taking off on November 1 this year.
In the meantime, the new airline chief is awaiting the results of his A levels in Business Studies, English Language, Sociology and General Studies.
He said: "Most of my school friends are now going off to university but I'm in charge of an airline.
"I don't know if I will be the next Richard Branson but I certainly wouldn't say no."