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Josh Cahill (born Aljoscha Wendholt, 17 June 1986) is a German aviation
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, airline critic and
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ger who presents airline reviews primarily through his
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channel.


Early life

There are conflicting accounts of Cahill's early life. According to a ''
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'' interview in 2008, Aljoscha Wendholt was born in
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,
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. He moved to
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when he was six years old, and grew up in the village of Mildenau in Saxony. He started travelling in 2005 with his first trip to
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. In two of his own videos published in 2024, Cahill said that his mother is
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, that they moved to Germany as refugees when he was "very young", and that he remains a Czech citizen. A January 2025 interview with Cahill published by Airliners.de reported that he was born in
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,
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as Aljoscha Wendholt-Cahill, but moved to Germany at the age of 7 and legally changed his name to Josh Cahill in 2016. The claims were later republished in a paid press release issued by a public relations agency.


Career

In 2009, after abandoning an attempt to walk 12,000 km from Germany to
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,
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, he
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from Germany to
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. He visited
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as a tourist in 2015, as well as
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in 2017. In July 2015, Cahill posted his first flight review on his
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channel and has since received over 121 million views. His most-watched review has over 22 million views. On 22 December 2020, Cahill and other bloggers were on board during the delivery of
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' first Airbus A330-800 from Toulouse to Entebbe; the delivery was led by General
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, the then Ugandan Minister of Works and Transport, and received by Uganda's President
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. On 24 February 2021, Cahill organized Afghanistan's first ever all-female flight from
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to
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. The flight was operated by
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and first featured on his channel. Cahill has received several awards for his work, including the "Best Airline Channel" in 2018, the "Aviation Achievement Award" in 2021, and the "Airline Critic of the Year" in 2024.


Incidents

In 2018, on a
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flight from
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to
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, Cahill shared his criticisms on Instagram during the flight, using the in-flight Wi-Fi. According to Cahill, the crew confronted him for the Instagram post and refused to provide him any more service unless he stopped filming. On 7 January 2020, Cahill gave a negative review to
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. Someone claiming to be a Singapore Airlines crew member sent him a death threat. Cahill contacted local law enforcement, who said they would investigate. In 2020, Cahill flew on board a
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, and shared his criticisms of its lounge and onboard faculties. In 2021, he reviewed Tunisair again, giving another negative review. Upon arrival at Tunis International Airport, he was approached by five police officers over his previous video. They asked him to hand over his camera, which he refused. In December 2023, Cahill claimed that
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had tried to bribe him with free flights in exchange for taking down a negative review, and then banned him from the airline after he refused. In 2024, an Aero Dili staff member made Cahill's passport public, saying that he did so to prove that problems at check-in had occurred because the name in Cahill's passport did not match the name on his boarding pass.


References

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