New U.S. start up by Delta pilot???

[jonjuan]

Fun things to do with your DAL pension money. It's either this or a new DAL pilot cage fighting league......

http://www.airliners.net/discussions/general_aviation/read.main/3453969/

Sapphire Airways hopes to become new U.S. start-up​

A former Delta pilot hopes to launch Sapphire Airways next year, a start-up carrier that would connect the USA and India, according to The Economic Times of India. The Times writes the proposed carrier hasn't yet received approval from U.S. officials, but "plans to start its services from San Francisco to Bangalore via Munich from June 2008, the company's Chairman and Founder Rahul Puranik told media here. He said the plans also included to launch a second flight on the Chicago-London-Mumbai sector at a later stage."

 

[FreightGod]

There is a huge market right there:

I flew those routes with Tower Air and we were always full.
The problem was they paid in Rupees, not exactly a hard currency.

Then the station managers in India stole so much from the till that there
was nothing left to operate airplanes...