A NEW airline has revealed plans to launch flights to some dream holiday hotspots.
Global Airlines – which is the UK’s newest airline – is planning on adding flights from the UK to the Maldives before Christmas.
Speaking with Metro, the airline’s founder, James Asquith, said: “Ask anyone in the UK, do you want to go to the Maldives? I think everyone would say: ‘I’d love to, it’s my dream holiday, or I want to go there on honeymoon.’
“And it’s so underserved from the UK.”
The Maldives is known for being a popular destination for British tourists, with flights taking around 11 hours to reach the islands which feature pretty white sand beaches and famous bungalows hanging over crystal clear waters.
There are currently direct flights already from the UK to the Maldives, including from London Heathrow with British Airways.
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Asquith also shared that the Maldives is just one of a number of long-haul destinations being considered and that the airline is looking to launch flights from a number of UK regional airports such as Manchester and Birmingham.
In addition to the latest flight route news, the airline is currently buying another plane.
The airline’s only plane at the moment, is an A380 – the world’s largest passenger plane.
The airline’s founder revealed that Global isn’t focusing on short-haul routes but instead, on flights to America and transatlantic destinations.
Though he also joked that they might give “a crack or two” at flying to Honolulu in Hawaii, which usually takes between 15 and 16 hours.
The airline already previously launched a route last year; however, only two flights took off and since then, there have been no other flights.
After initially launching in 2022, Global Airlines wanted to start flying from London Gatwick by 2023 and have around 100 planes flying across Europe by 2025.
However, due to several delays, only two commercial flights have flown to date, which were between Glasgow and New York in May 2025.
Since then, Global Airlines’ only plane has remained at Tarbes Airport in France, in a storage hangar.
Asquith mainly blames the delays on maintenance check wait times, but he remains confident that the Maldives route will be up and running before 2027.