Global Airlines reshuffles leadership amid continued flight hiatus

Aspiring A380 operator appoints new director to replace twin departures, while quadjet remains in storage in France.

UK start-up carrier Global Airlines has tweaked its leadership team in recent weeks, amid a continued operational pause that has lasted since May last year.

In fact, 15 May marks exactly one year since the inaugural revenue flight of its single Airbus A380.

Companies House filings show that Thomas Stokely and Prashant Uttamchandani resigned as directors on 14 April and 3 May, respectively.

Stokely, who has links to the adult website OnlyFans, was appointed as a director on 9 January 2024, with Uttamchandani following on 22 May that year.

Their resignations left founder and chief executive James Asquith as the sole director for a brief time. However, he was joined on 5 May by Dylan Salamon.

Salamon’s LinkedIn profile states that he has been a member of Global’s advisory board since December 2025.

Describing himself as a “technically an entrepreneur”, Salamon lists three firms he was responsible for founding: The Curling Club, Down to Flow Escapes, and Hasta World.

Although The Curling Club remains a going concern, Down to Flow Escapes – which offered luxury yoga and fitness retreats – ceased trading in November 2022, while self-described “experiential events and corporate wellbeing company” Hasta World was voluntarily dissolved last year.

Salamon is the sole director and majority owner of a fourth company, Jo’Burg Ltd, which Companies House classifies as a real estate and management consultancy business that was formed in 2024.

Since its maiden flight last year, a return service between Glasgow and New York JFK airports, followed days later by a similar operation from Manchester to the US hub, there has been little in the way of activity from Global Airlines.

Its A380 (9H-GLOBL) remains in storage at Tarbes-Lourdes-Pyrenees airport in southern France, where it arrived in July 2025.

In a video posted on Global’s website in December, Asquith said the carrier had “worked relentlessly behind the scenes on a whole range of next steps”.

These include “progressing towards its own [air operator’s certificate] and building a fleet of aircraft”.

He cited the MRO backlog as the reason for the delay to the A380’s return to service.

He insisted there was a “lot happening” and that he was “excited to see what the future brings in 2026”.

It is unclear what impact the current raised fuel prices will have on the viability of its operation.

Global Airlines says the two departed directors remain significant shareholders in the business and that it expects to appoint additional directors moving forwards.

This story has been updated with additional information from Global Airlines.