No movement two years after startup airline announced for Stewart

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Still a paper airplane

STEWART AIRPORT –Two years and two months after the principals of startup airline US Global Airways announced plans to provide international service from New York Stewart International Airport near Newburgh, all they have to show for it is coffee mugs and tote bags with their logo.

The airline, which has no airplanes, is the latest incarnation of Baltia Air, which has been around on paper for more than a dozen years.

Baltia has not submitted required filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission for two years and, as a result, has lost its ability to sell stock as a result.

Airline spokesman John Lampl told Mid-Hudson News they still have an office at Stewart, but the phone was disconnected over a year ago to save money, he said. Now, the airline’s website has been taken down and Lampl said that was also to cut operating costs.

He said they continue to seek “proper financing,” but that depends on pending litigation, which he declined to discuss, saying he was not familiar with the details.

“Our ultimate objective is to still start service at Stewart,” Lampl said.

Repeated attempts to contact company president John Drago over the last two years have been fruitless.

When US Global announced their plans to their board of directors and potential investors amid lots of fanfare at Stewart in April 2017, officials said they planned on acquiring Boeing 747 jets and flying to the Caribbean, Europe, Russia and the Middle East.




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