The ghost airline announced the launch of its first flight after 28 years

This is a very strange story. In the United States, they found an airline that has not completed a single flight since 1989. It was founded by a native of the USSR who was planning to connect New York with St. Petersburg, Riga and Tel Aviv.

The company bought and wrote off planes, participated in air shows, "shone" in the news ... but did not transport passengers! And now, after almost 30 years, she decided on the first flight!

An amazing air carrier from Michigan was found in America last year: a company called Baltia Air Lines, founded by an emigrant from Riga, promised to organize non-stop flights from New York to St. Petersburg in 1989, but faced several difficulties, including Obtaining permission from the US Federal Aviation Administration. In 1991, Dmitrovsky even received permission from the US Department of Transportation for flights to Riga and Leningrad, but since the airline did not have airplanes, flights could not be launched. Due to too high expenses, she was forced to move from New York to Michigan.

The first aircraft from an American company appeared only in 2009: Baltia Air Lines bought a Boeing-747-200 without engines from a Pakistani carrier. Three years later, the company managed to buy a liner of the same model from Northwest Airlines, after which the first plane was sent for scrap.

Years passed, and the airline never made a single flight with passengers. The Baltia Air Lines website states that it is an operating carrier that provides "a high level of service and quality of passenger, cargo and postal services." Just while the company is being certified. In 2016, the head of Baltia Air Lines Igor Dmitrovsky died, and Anthony Kulouris was elected in his place.

Now the ghostly carrier again promises to rise to the sky. The airline plans to rent several Boeing-767-300 airliners and transport passengers, cargo and mail between Stuart International Airport (90 kilometers from New York) and European cities. Among the possible routes are London, Paris, Barcelona, Nice, Naples, Athens, Warsaw, Budapest, Prague, St. Petersburg and Tel Aviv. When the sale of tickets starts and flights can begin, it is not reported.
After reading about this amazing story, the first thing I remembered was the famous Brighton Beach and its inhabitants. It seems to me that Igor Dmitrovsky lived there: a typical representative of the Soviet emigration, who got out to America, living with incessant thoughts about his former homeland. Hence the name of the company and the Riga cockerel in livery. Someone will say that he was a fraud, and I will say - a dreamer. And he definitely went down in history.

What will happen next? I think they won’t take off. But is it that important?