Table of Contents
Introduction
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- Key findings
Data Sources
Overview
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- Outlook for spending on travel and tourism
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- Figure 1: Forecasted and projected expenditure on travel and tourism in Asia, by sub-region, 2011-21
- Supply and demand trends
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- Figure 2: Year-on-year percentage change in air-transport supply and demand, April 2010-11
- Airline capacity ranking by country
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- Figure 3: Capacity to Asia – seats per week by destination country, May 2011 versus May 2010
Asian Low-cost Carriers by Country
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- China
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- Figure 4: Chinese low-cost carriers, 2011
- Chengdu Airlines
- China West Air
- Lucky Air
- Spring Airlines
- Spring now flies to Japan
- Viva Macau
- India
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- Figure 5: Total passenger movements in India, 2004-13
- Domestic air travel growing even faster
- Deregulation and a rising middle class
- Market overview
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- Figure 6: Indian domestic market shares (% of passenger traffic), November 2009 & 2010/April 2011
- Network carriers have switched to low-cost format
- High load factors
- IndiGo
- An order for 300 aircraft engines
- Boosting staff numbers by over a third
- A possible IPO?
- An attractive alliance partner
- Launch of foreign routes
- Emergence of packages
- Hotel partners
- SpiceJet
- Profits up sharply
- A single class of aircraft
- Delhi and Mumbai are two biggest bases
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- Figure 7: SpiceJet’s top 12 airports, September 2010
- Customer service features
- Indochina
- Cambodia and Laos
- Vietnam
- Jetstar Pacific
- Indonesia
- Deregulation has sparked explosive growth
- Infrastructure under strain
- Domestic traffic dwarfs international
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- Figure 8: Domestic air traffic in Indonesia, 2004-09
- Figure 9: International air traffic in Indonesia, 2004-09
- Figure 10: Domestic Indonesian air-transport capacity, March 2010
- Lion Air
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- Figure 11: Lion Air’s existing and planned fleet, 2011
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- Figure 12: Lion Air’s delivery schedule, 2011
- Figure 13: Fleet plans of select South East Asian airlines, February 2010
- Wings Air – a subsidiary
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- Figure 14: Wings Air fleet, March 2011
- Indonesia AirAsia
- Japan
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- Figure 15: Japanese LCCs, 2011
- Malaysia
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- Figure 16: Malaysian air passenger movements, 2004-13
- A dedicated low-cost terminal
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- Figure 17: Breakdown of LCCT-KLIA, by specific area, 2011
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- Figure 18: LCCT-KLIA’s configuration, 2011
- New terminal to be ready by March 2012
- Capacity for 30 million passengers
- AirAsia
- Airbus 320 has been adopted
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- Figure 19: AirAsia’s air fleet, by hub, country and subsidiary, May 2011
- Expanded distribution possibilities
- Good coverage of ASEAN
- A new Philippines affiliate
- Clark has a catchment area of 23 million
- 200 million passengers by 2013
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- Figure 20: Consolidated operating statistics for AirAsia, 2007-10
- AirAsia to stick to the region
- A Vietnamese subsidiary?
- AirAsia X – a successful long-haul budget carrier
- The Philippines
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- Figure 21: Philippine air traffic, 2006-08*
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- Figure 22: Air-seat capacity shares in the Philippine commercial aviation market, August 2010
- Cebu Pacific
- An expanding route network
- Largest IPO in the Philippines and largest global LCC IPO ever
- An expanding fleet
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- Figure 23: Cebu Pacific aircraft fleet development, 2010-14
- Lower-income passengers targeted
- Singapore
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- Figure 24: Airline passenger movements in Singapore, 2004-13
- 48 million passengers by 2013
- Budget terminal
- Tiger Airways
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- Figure 25: Shareholders in Tiger Airways as at 25 August 2010
- Profit before tax to almost triple in FY 2011
- Capacity to grow in Singapore but not Australia
- Expansion planned with foreign partners
- 68 aircraft by the end of 2015
- Jetstar Asia
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- Figure 26: Jetstar Asia’s route network, 2011
- Fleet
- Modular fares
- Long-haul amenities
- Interline and code-share partnerships
- Performance
- South Korea
- Six leading domestic carriers
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- Figure 27: Airline shares on domestic routes, March 2010
- Figure 28: South Korean LCCs, 2011
- Air Busan
- Eastar Jet
- Jeju Air
- Jin Air
- Thailand
- Traffic grew by more than 80% over decade
- Thai AirAsia gaining on Thai Airways in domestic market
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- Figure 29: Airline market shares in Thailand, 1 February 2010
- Thai AirAsia
- Chiang Mai added
- A focus on south Asia
- Nok Air
What Next?
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- Capacity surge in India
- GoAir wants to catch up
- Major IndiGo and SpiceJet orders
- Better infrastructure supports growth
- LCC development in China, Japan and South Korea?
- China still discourages LCCs
- Singapore Airlines to set up LCC
- Threat to SIA’s price-elastic economy business
- A significant investment
- Aircraft for new LCC
- Qantas competitive threat
- Cathay Pacific will not follow in SIA’s footsteps
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