Under the pseudonym Adam Tait, the 17-year-old from Yorkshire flew to the Island in April for a 90-minute meeting with Airport director Julian Green.
Mr Tait said that he was the UK-based agent for American Global Group and wanted to set up ‘an ambitious network’ of flights between Jersey, the UK and Europe. However, the airline did not exist, and neither did the fleet of 12 jets to which Mr Tait claimed to have immediate access.
The UK police have questioned the teenager, who is understood to suffer from a form of autism, but will not be taking any action against him.
Mr Green declined to comment, but issued a statement which confirmed that he had met Mr Tait. The Airport authorities said that no comment could be made on what was discussed because of commercial sensitivity.
The statement said that although Jersey Airport had had discussions with Mr Tait in recent weeks about his proposal, further information had come to light in recent days and negotiations had ended.
Mr Tait also contacted Guernsey-based airline Aurigny whose commercial director Malcolm Coupar said: From the outset we had reservations about the guy. It would appear that he had some financial backing and we didn’t want to dismiss a possibility before advancing as far as we could.’
The scam was revealed by a journalist from Airliner World magazine who became suspicious.
