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JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION

Asia's budget airlines eye growth, but worried by high fuel costs

Travel Jan. 29, 2010 - 04:19AM JST ( 3 )

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some14someJan. 29, 2010 - 12:40PM JST

No growth (no profits) even if the Airliens are supplied Fuel For Free ! 'cause CEOs fly at higher altitude than the aircrafts and the profits evaporate !
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DentShopJan. 29, 2010 - 12:44PM JST

If more budget airlines can start creeping into Japan they are going to change the market forever. They will of course be mainly selling tour packages which are the bread and butter of the Japanese tourism market but there will be plenty of brave J-Tourists who venture out on their own. With half the population retiring in the next 15 years with a whole lot less money than they originally expected, the temptation to travel a little cheaper will prove irresistible. It will lift the numbers entering Japan if Malaysians, Chinese and Russians can get here very cheaply.

The big problem for budget airlines other than oil fluctuations is bad publicity. These companies are fodder for sensationalism since the readers of trash newspapers are also the main customers on budget air. Jetstar is getting a belting in the Australian trash-press right now and it is easy to see they dont handle the bad publicity well.
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bcbrownboyJan. 29, 2010 - 08:26PM JST

None of 'em will come to the vaunted Ibaraki International Airport. What a joke that is.