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New airline launching in the UK to have its own ‘sky pub’ onboard

Published on April 23, 2025 at 08:42 AM

A NEW start-up airline launching flights from the UK has revealed a first look at their new cabins.

First announced back in 2021, is set to offer transatlantic flights from the UK.

Global Airlines Airbus A380 taking off.
Global Airlines has revealed a sneak preview of it's new economy seats
Empty airplane seats with Global Airlines logo.
The economy cabin layout will be 3-4-3
Screenshot of a computer screen showing a video of an airplane interior and a Brightcove news feed with thumbnails of various news stories.
The sky pub will be on the top deck

The first flight – – will be from Glasgow to New York.

This won't be on their official aircraft however, and will instead be with Portuguese charter airline Hi Fly.

But the airline has since revealed a first look at what to expect from their class cabin dubbed the Global Traveller.

New images show a 3-4-3 layout, meaning 10 seats per row across the cabin.

The beige seats are off-set with a deep red cushion, similar to the Global Airlines branding colour.

It isn't clear what other amenities will be offered, such as inflight entertainment screens or

And in a separate video, the airline revealed an onboard ‘sky pub'.

The video shows someone walking up to the second deck of the double decker plane, with an interior compartment that simply says ‘sky pub'.

Little else is known about what will be served onboard, although it was previously suggested this could include “in economy”.

Founder James Asquith explained on social media: “I’m really proud of what we have done in a short space of time, and of course, this is just the start for us.

“Remember the first product on in the early days...it only got better and better with time.

“To do more would mean a multi-year wait, and we can’t wait to get flying, but I couldn’t be happier with our Global Traveller (economy) cabin.”

He added in regards to the sky pub: “A fun idea that we came up with, and this is, in my opinion the best thing about the extra space that the A380 affords you.

“We will certainly add more as we go, but for anyone that is familiar with Major Mods on an aircraft, you’re looking at many years to certify bigger social spaces and bars, so we will develop our social spaces even more when we have more aircraft in the sky.”

One person said: “Looks more like seats!”

Another agreed: “Looks very comfortable.”

You might have to start saving if you want to be on that first flight, however.

The tickets, currently cost around £778 return when in economy.

Airplane seats with Global Airlines headrests.

This is almost double the price that Virgin Atlantic are currently offering, which is around £401 (albeit flying from rather than Glasgow).

The price does, however, include checked luggage, unlike the basic Virgin fare.

are around £3,700 while first class costs around £7,127.

The airline won't have , with the founder previously saying it “only financially benefits airlines […] not the passenger”.

The first flight will take off from Glasgow at 11am on May 15, landing at JFK Airport around seven hours later.

A second UK flight will then operate from Manchester on May 17,

James previously claimed the airline would return passengers to the “golden age of flying”.

He toldthe Timeslast year: “People are sick and tired of the service they get on current airlines. We will be better.”;

Another who hopes to have an “100-destination” network, including to and from the UK.

And here's another airline launching it's

Global Airlines plane in flight.
The first flight it taking off next month from Glasgow
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