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Lost luggage. Frustrating delays. Bad food. It's hard to get excited about flying these days. Hard, that is, unless you've just boarded the Airbus A300 owned by former Indian Airlines engineer B.C. Gupta. Take, for example, the safety demonstration. After asking for a volunteer from the 120 or...
What makes the budget carriers such ornery opponents is their relentless cost cutting. Fernandes, who has dreamed up all kinds of ways to save money, claims AirAsia is the world's lowest-cost airline. He pays his flight attendants to clean planes instead of hiring special crews, which not only...
Still, even Fernandes doesn't expect budget airlines to create the same upheaval for big carriers in Asia that they have in the U.S. and Europe. A tighter web of regulation provides established airlines more protection by preventing low-cost carriers from hopping from city to city around Asia the...
With so many budget carriers starting up, they might be a bigger threat to one another than to the major carriers. Thailand has no fewer than seven low-cost operators. In September, Singapore's A-Sonic Aerospace said it plans to start a budget carrier in China with a Chinese...
The rivalry among no-frills flyers is already getting brutal. When Tiger offered a 59¢ one-way ticket to Bangkok from Singapore on September flights, AirAsia countered with a 29¢ fare. Fernandes advertised the promotion with his usual flair. Ads showing two beautiful flight attendants draped over a subdued tiger...