Aviation: British teen launches airline

AFP reports that a British teenager has launched a low-cost airline from his bedroom, becoming possibly the youngest airline boss in the world.

Daniel Reilly says he started flying lessons when he was 16 and he and his friends joked about buying a plane and flying people around the world."

He decided to explore how to establish an airline as part of a business studies course that he was taking as part of his high school A-Level subjects, calling a few airlines to ask how they had done it.

Daniel, showed his project for Nexus Airline to a financial adviser who found backers for the business.

Initially the service will operate from an airport in Liverpool, northern England, to the Spanish Canary Island destinations of Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and Fuerteventura.

Full story: Sydney Morning Herald