China’s fledgling LCCs
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Though China’s fast growing aviation sector expects a 16% leap in passenger traffic to 185 million trips this year, Channel News Asia reported yesterday that only a fraction will be on LCCs.
Little-known private Chinese budget airlines like Okay and Spring face costly restrictions, high landing fees, route bans and state monopolies.
“Only when liberalisation of the aviation industry is realised will the low-cost model be popularised,” Okay Airways coo Wang Jianbin, recently told a Shanghai conference. (AFP)
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