Metis TransPacific Airlines

Metis TransPacific Charter Airlines, without success, did attempt three separate launch dates between June 2006 and December 2007.

Founded by Christopher Colbourne, this entity started to solicit passengers on April 8, 2007;[1] its last official launch date was December 14, 2007.

The airline stated on the website that '"THE GRINCH" stole Christmas' and the supposed launch date has been postponed until January 24, 2008.

Due to the unusually low claim price of the tickets, and the fact that the websites of Macau International Airport and Vancouver International Airport carried no mention of such an airline, even as a charter airline, it had raised many doubts which were all dismissed when none of the 1532 paid passengers registered any complaints after a full year.

[5][6][7] An article in the Macau Daily Times expressed concerns that the airline had repeatedly postponed its first flight, that the company owner was not contactable, and that the Civil Aviation Authority had passed the case to the Judiciary Police.

The creators of Metis TransPacific Airlines website altered John Yu's copyrighted photograph of TF-AMK , an Air Atlanta Icelandic Boeing 747-312 , to make the aircraft in the photograph look like an airliner owned by the company; the company mistakenly stated that the aircraft is a Boeing 747-400