Comment une fausse compagnie aérienne a piégé Cyril Hanouna et TPMP (Skyline Airways)

A fake airline company managed to secure a partnership with one of France's most-watched TV shows, Touche pas à mon poste.

On September 21, TPMP offered a free trip to Greece to the audience through a partnership with Skyline Airways, heavily promoted by host Cyril Hanouna on the show and on Twitter.

The Skyline Airways website appeared legitimate, displaying airplane photos, staff images, and flights from major airports.

Shortly after, several customers including a man named Rachid reported purchasing tickets but never receiving their flight confirmations or refunds, with no customer service contact available.

• Skyline Airways registered as 'auxiliary air transport services' on Societe.com • Created recently in March 2025 with only 1 euro capital • No actual flight operations in six months since creation

Indeed listings for airline pilot positions lacked technical details about aircraft and provided vague job descriptions, unusual for such a specialized role.

• Reserved Marseille-Barcelona flight at 20:00 on September 26, but no actual flights depart that route at that time • International flight arrival times ignored time zone conversions • Customers could still purchase seat selections for non-existent flights

• Airplane photos were Air Berlin aircraft photoshopped with Skyline Airways logos • Staff images purchased from stock photo services, not actual employees

Company managers Lellane Squaratti and Zakaria Des Reines are aged 17 and 22 respectively, very young to operate an airline-related business.

A spokesman claiming to be press attaché explained Skyline Airways operates as an air brokerage company renting planes from third parties, not as an actual airline. Phantom flights on the website were allegedly decorative to attract customers before actual operations began.

Despite the brokerage explanation, multiple customers including Rachid affirmed they purchased tickets and were charged, contradicting the claim that no bookings should be processed.

The General Directorate of Civil Aviation contacted gendarmes in late August with strong suspicions about the company.

TPMP management panicked over the controversy. Cyril Hanouna promised on Twitter that all prize winners would receive travel compensation.

Ryan Squaratti, Skyline Airways founder, appeared on TPMP claiming the company is not fraudulent but remained evasive in explanations, stating he secured investor funding and plans to rent empty aircraft at 10,000 euros per hour to fill with passengers.

UFC Que Choisir consumer organization highlighted that the company's marketing misleadingly presented itself as an actual airline while lacking aircraft or operational capacity.

• Website still displays fake flight schedules with impossible times that customers can purchase • Customers who bought tickets being redirected to legitimate airlines for compensation • Core confusion about company nature—marketing suggests airline operation, reality is undefined intermediary service