Budget high flyers
Sandra Newman
1-May-2006
With rapid growth for Asia's low-cost airline network and many more services set to begin this year the low-cost boom shows no signs of slowing. Sandra Newman reports
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The performance of the region's biggest low-cost carrier, Malaysia-based Air Asia, is typical of the boom in Asian budget air travel. Air Asia's passenger traffic grew by 40.5% in the
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