Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Mainline Airways LLC was tour operator in operation from 2002 to 2003 by an American college student, whom Massachusetts state authorities said didn't hold itself out to the public as a tour operator, instead pretending to be an airline offering cut-rate tickets between Honolulu and Los Angeles without the ability to actually provide the flights due to lack of an aircraft operating certificate ("AOC"). The student was Luke Thompson of Lower Makefield, Pennsylvania, then a college sophomore at Babson College in Massachusetts. The website was www.mainlineairways.com and its customer call center was 1-888-FLY-ML-AIR (1-888-359-6524).During a short period prior to the lawsuit (during May and early-June 2003), the company sold what it called "pre-reservations" on flights that it claimed would be chartered between Los Angeles and Honolulu beginning in July 2003, for as low as $89 one-way. It was popular and publicized by the media as the first low-price "airline" to operate between LAX and Honolulu in many years. The fact that the company was chartering the aircraft and not operating the flights themselves was hidden deep into the contract terms on the company's website, leading to rumors of illegitimacy that attracted the attention of the state attorney's office, who quickly filed suit against Mainline ex parte.According to court documents, the company received aircraft commitments from Omni Air International and Ryan International Airlines for Boeing DC-10 aircraft for the summer season and 757-200 aircraft (pending ETOPS certification) for the winter season, 757-200's (ETOPS) from North American Airlines, ETOPS 737-800's from Miami Air International, MD-11 aircraft from World Airways, and a 757-200 from Pace Airlines, all charter airlines, but Mainline formally rejected several of these prior to the lawsuit, claiming that the commitments came at an unacceptable cost. At the time, many of those airlines' Boeing 757-200 aircraft were not yet ETOPS certified, however most now are.The company had also attempted to gain a cabotage waver to allow Lufthansa's Condor Airlines to fly passengers on foreign registered 757-300 aircraft, that the at the time were sitting idle. Lufthansa withdrew its offer in April 2003. Lufthansa states that it deemed the project unprofitable. The amount of sales in escrow at the time the lawsuit was filed, and returned to customers, was never publicly disclosed by either party, but is thought to be between $200,000 and $5 million."@en }
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- Mainline_Airways abstract "Mainline Airways LLC was tour operator in operation from 2002 to 2003 by an American college student, whom Massachusetts state authorities said didn't hold itself out to the public as a tour operator, instead pretending to be an airline offering cut-rate tickets between Honolulu and Los Angeles without the ability to actually provide the flights due to lack of an aircraft operating certificate ("AOC"). The student was Luke Thompson of Lower Makefield, Pennsylvania, then a college sophomore at Babson College in Massachusetts. The website was www.mainlineairways.com and its customer call center was 1-888-FLY-ML-AIR (1-888-359-6524).During a short period prior to the lawsuit (during May and early-June 2003), the company sold what it called "pre-reservations" on flights that it claimed would be chartered between Los Angeles and Honolulu beginning in July 2003, for as low as $89 one-way. It was popular and publicized by the media as the first low-price "airline" to operate between LAX and Honolulu in many years. The fact that the company was chartering the aircraft and not operating the flights themselves was hidden deep into the contract terms on the company's website, leading to rumors of illegitimacy that attracted the attention of the state attorney's office, who quickly filed suit against Mainline ex parte.According to court documents, the company received aircraft commitments from Omni Air International and Ryan International Airlines for Boeing DC-10 aircraft for the summer season and 757-200 aircraft (pending ETOPS certification) for the winter season, 757-200's (ETOPS) from North American Airlines, ETOPS 737-800's from Miami Air International, MD-11 aircraft from World Airways, and a 757-200 from Pace Airlines, all charter airlines, but Mainline formally rejected several of these prior to the lawsuit, claiming that the commitments came at an unacceptable cost. At the time, many of those airlines' Boeing 757-200 aircraft were not yet ETOPS certified, however most now are.The company had also attempted to gain a cabotage waver to allow Lufthansa's Condor Airlines to fly passengers on foreign registered 757-300 aircraft, that the at the time were sitting idle. Lufthansa withdrew its offer in April 2003. Lufthansa states that it deemed the project unprofitable. The amount of sales in escrow at the time the lawsuit was filed, and returned to customers, was never publicly disclosed by either party, but is thought to be between $200,000 and $5 million.".