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Lions and Tigers: LCCs in Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia is home to one of the largest budget airline sectors, with low-cost carriers (LCCs) accounting for nearly half of seat capacity on scheduled flights in 2018. The most prolific no-frills carrier in the region is Malaysia-based AirAsia, which has affiliates in Thailand, Indonesia, the P...

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Autor principal: Bowen, John
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7149895/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-811393-6.00008-3
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description Southeast Asia is home to one of the largest budget airline sectors, with low-cost carriers (LCCs) accounting for nearly half of seat capacity on scheduled flights in 2018. The most prolific no-frills carrier in the region is Malaysia-based AirAsia, which has affiliates in Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, and beyond. Similarly, Indonesia's Lion Air has formed a family of related carriers across much of the region. These and other LCCs have prospered partly through their political connections, illustrating that even in a liberalized region the power of the state to shape the industry remains formidable. A challenge for the industry is the lack of secondary airports and of strained capacity at the region's principal hubs; pilots and other skilled industry personnel are in short supply too. Nevertheless, the development of long-haul budget airlines, including Singapore Airlines’ subsidiary Scoot and several long-haul affiliates of AirAsia signals the maturity of the LCC sector.
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spelling pubmed-71498952020-04-13 Lions and Tigers: LCCs in Southeast Asia Bowen, John Low-Cost Carriers in Emerging Countries Article Southeast Asia is home to one of the largest budget airline sectors, with low-cost carriers (LCCs) accounting for nearly half of seat capacity on scheduled flights in 2018. The most prolific no-frills carrier in the region is Malaysia-based AirAsia, which has affiliates in Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, and beyond. Similarly, Indonesia's Lion Air has formed a family of related carriers across much of the region. These and other LCCs have prospered partly through their political connections, illustrating that even in a liberalized region the power of the state to shape the industry remains formidable. A challenge for the industry is the lack of secondary airports and of strained capacity at the region's principal hubs; pilots and other skilled industry personnel are in short supply too. Nevertheless, the development of long-haul budget airlines, including Singapore Airlines’ subsidiary Scoot and several long-haul affiliates of AirAsia signals the maturity of the LCC sector. 2019 2019-02-15 /pmc/articles/PMC7149895/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-811393-6.00008-3 Text en Copyright © 2019 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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