Budget carriers in race for air supremacy

January 21, 2014
, by wego admin

MALAYSIAN and Indonesian airlines are racing to rule Southeast Asia’s low cost carrier (LCC) market, translating into huge savings on airfares and a flurry of promotional offers for travellers, said Wego.com Chief Flights Officer, Dean Wicks.

The travel search engine is weighing in on a record boom in Asia’s LCC sector as it carries more than 30 individual Asian LCC partnerships options on its metasearch site.

“Malaysia appears to be edging ahead with Air Asia and its six regional carriers that operate under the Air Asia brand, each of which is among the ten largest individual LCCs in the Asia Pacific,” said Wicks in a statement, Monday.

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