Tag: low-cost
Norse Atlantic Airways, the new Scandinavian player trying to settle in a profitable and competitive air market
The air transportation market between Europe and North America is extremely competitive. The American majors, the European majors and the Canadian airlines, as well as new players, are competing to maximize their market share.
Among these new players, a number...
Easyjet founder offers €5m to kill Airbus deal!
The situation is not improving between the founder of EasyJet and the management in place against the background of the cancellation of an order placed with Airbus in 2013.
As we reported some time ago, Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the founder of...
Will the COVID-19 be the death of low-cost airlines?
The fact that a major crisis will hit the airline industry in 2020/2021 was something expected but not really for the reasons we know today. We were expecting a sectoral crisis of overcapacity and not a global health crisis,...
Meanwhile, Air France is playing it cheap
While some French airlines have had a more than chaotic summer, it seems that Air France is taking it seriously enough to start preparing for a disappointing future.
The first signs came from Flying Blue.
Flying blue : "Deceiving by...
Did Norwegian and the low-costs kill XL Airways?
After a deadly summer for French low-costs, XL Airways is the last airline to be left out.
Of course, this has caused a legitimate stir, as is the case whenever a business disappears, and even more so in a sector...
Passenger experience: low-cost is not the problem, low-care is!
Passengers have a love-hate relationship with low-cost airlines, which are both criticized for their service and praised because they make flying affordable for almost everyone.
An unfair low-cost bashing
We sometimes see what looks like low-cost bashing and although we...
Green light from Air France pilots for the development of Transavia
While the development of the French branch of Transavia, the low-cost subsidiary of the Air France-KLM group, was until now blocked by the pilots of the powerful SNPL UnionThe group announced last Wednesday that an agreement had been reached...
Why so many airlines have collapsed…and why it will continue
The last few months have seen a significant number of airlines experiencing difficulties or even disappearing. This may seem surprising in a context of continuous growth in the number of passengers, but it can be explained. Worse: this is...
Brussels Airlines will not disappear…and long-haul low-costs are struggling
Contrary to what was planned, Brussels Airlines will not disappear to be integrated into Eurowings. This about-face by Lufthansa Group says a lot about the future of long-haul low-cost carriers, at least for those of the legacy airlines.
Something intrigued...