Flymeaway Babe.com: The Launch of Flymeaway Babe from Hollycroft International Airport Ltd

by Michael Morton

The fictional Hollycroft International Airport launch's a new low cost airline FlymeawayBabe.com. It brings together the airport owners Pacific Airways who construct buildings without planning permission, the Local Planning Authority, LPA who’ll stop at nothing to prevent the launch, the gay couple who manage Flymeaway Travel Group. FTG who own Flymeaway Airways, the legal team Smiths Knight with an insatiable appetite for making money, the Airport Director who believes he can have sex with any woman he wants and then finally there’s Gabriel Gibson the conduit and ex handling agent General Manager. The story sees the building of a Temporary Passenger Facility known as the TPF. The TPF was completed within four months and in its first full year of operation processed nearly three quarters of a million passengers within a footprint of five hundred square metres. After the launch of the airline the LPA take legal action to close the airport this would see the airport ownership pass from Pacific Airways to FTG who having launched FlymeawayBabe.com went on to run the airport for nearly two years. Thereafter the airport is sold to World Wide Airport Services who form a JV with an Irish and American company with expectations of creating a network of regional airports both in the UK and Europe. The incidents and characters in the story are fictional but the planning issues are real.

308 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 25, 2017

About the author

Michael Morton was born in Everton, Liverpool in 1958. Qualified as a Mining Engineer and worked in a number of UK collieries. In 1996 following the collapse of coal mining in the UK he moved into the airline and airport business. His love of story telling came from his nan, she'd spend hours every Sunday creating stories for him and his cousins. On becoming a father he continued this family tradition with his own two children and thereafter the five grandchildren.
Back in the early nineties when he moved to North Wales he put pen to paper and started to write a number of short stories for his children. The first of which "Message in a Bottle" was released in May 2020.
His first published book based on his experiences in the airline and airport sector was in 2017 "Flymeaway Babe.com" and followed in 2019 by "Time To Move On." The final book in the trilogy John Wesley International Airport is currently on hold whilst he completes a number of books on his coal mining industry experience.
The first of which "The Undermanager" was started in 1992 but never finished until November 2020 and now available on Amazon. It tells the story of his time in the coal industry and the men he worked with and for. It was an extremely important part of his life and something he was proud to be part of. Much of these experiences helped develop him into the manager he was to become. The sequel to this will be "Shafted" which he is currently writing and hoping to be available next year.
During the recent coronavirus pandemic he took time out to complete his first short story. Published in April 2020 "Love is in the Air"

Reviews

[Mark Moxley-Knapp · Rating 2 out of 5]

It's not often that I give up on a book, but I just couldn't keep going. Multiple typos on each page. A moderately interesting story, but often got bogged down in "corporate speak" and the details of business plans. The characters were flat; given more time, perhaps they could become interesting. Seems to be written by someone with experience in the industry, and as a former aviation worker I was intrigued by the premise. Sadly, a letdown.