Welcome to the not-so-cheap seats - LCCs go upmarket
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Low-cost carriers; love them or hate them, they serve a purpose. They get you from A to B at minimal cost, very little fuss, and even less comfort. With original slogans like ‘Now everyone can fly’, ‘It’s time everyone flies’, or ‘Come on, let’s fly’, the message is clear: “All aboard, we don’t discriminate on the grounds of age, creed or class - we’ll happily serve anyone!” And quite right too. Only, all of a sudden, LCCs have started to discriminate on class; business class, to be precise.
When AirAsia X announced recently that it would be the first LCC to offer flat-bed seats, it didn’t raise too many eyebrows. After all, it is a long-haul carrier; even if it is still essentially an LCC, it can’t be expected to replicate the cabin layout of a standard short-haul budget flight. Cases of deep-vein thrombosis would go through the roof, and I don’t care how good their in-flight magazine is (and it is pretty good), it ain’t going to last for a 12-hour trip from KL to London. With reference to the original A330 seats, the airline recently said; “When the seats were manufactured, this design turned out to be very problematic
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