When being the lowest cost is not enough: Building a successful low-fare airline business model in Asia

Journal of Air Transport Management

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 355-362

  Lawton, Thomas C ^a   Solomko, Stanislav ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Centre Air Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

Asia; Cost competition; Low fare airlines

Indexed keywords

AIR TRANSPORTATION; COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); MARKET DEVELOPMENT; TRANSPORTATION ECONOMICS;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; WORLD;

EID: 24744466310     PISSN: 09696997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jairtraman.2005.03.001     Document Type: Article

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