Low Cost Carrier Impact

February 2003 English and French only THE IMPACT OF LOW COST CARRIERS IN EUROPE (Presented by Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Turkey, Ukraine, unite Kingdom)1 1. BACKGROUND 1.1 In the current difficult climate for European aviation, unity sector is performing extremely well, the so-called starting time live/no-frills carriers. While the flag-carriers are experiencing severe difficulties, withdrawing from routes and cutting staff, the low woo sector continues to expand at a awesome pace. There is evidence that the low cost carriers are even becoming dominant players on a significant add up of intra-European shorthaul point-to-point routes. The extent to which this expansion of the low cost carriers will actuate the traditional airline hub-and-spoke networks poses interesting questions for the European application and policy makers. 1.

2 Europes experience of low cost scheduled operators began in 1991 when Irish carrier Ryanair transformed itself from a conventional regional airline into a carbon likeness of the US low cost pioneer Southwest Airlines. By focusing initially on serving the large leisure time market between Ireland and the UK, the airline had a dramatic emergence on services across the Irish Sea. The second chassis of Ryanairs rapid growth has involved the carrier in building up a network of intra-EU routes linking Londons third airport, Stansted, with over 50 under-utilized, secondary airports in a number of countries, making the second largest low-cost carrier in Europe. 1.3 After the acquisition of its rival and British Airways offset printing Go, EasyJet, established in 1995, is... If you want to get a teeming essay, order it on our website: Orderessay

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