What about...

[Methinks]

What about the new Oasis planes from Hong Kong to London for 200 bucks? Wouldn't that be a good getaway?

I guess the evil BM on the angry site would delete this thread because Oasis didn't pay it to advertise there?

[Skeptical Me]

A good getaway? 13 hrs.... each way?

hmmm 200 bucks may just buy the fuel and one wonders who pays for maintainance of the aircraft... hmmmm.

[Methinks]

They have 300 passengers, and $200 is the cheapest ticke. Business is ... what... $350? Plus some stuff they sell, they can probably make 75,000 bucks a flight. Not bad.

I think the people behind it are aiming at a 100% occupancy rate, and will go bankrupt if it gets below 70% or something, while the 'usual carriers' are aiming at a 70% occupancy rate and would go bankrupt if it went below 30% or so.

Different strategies, different frequencies, etc.

Let's hope for the best. I think I will succeed.

[MC Donalds]

Good luck for them! Hopefully, they take away the lowest fare seeking segment from 'regular' flights so that the tourist class can become bearable again.

For a tall person, even business class flights to Europe with the lower priced carriers (Scandinavian, Swiss, etc.) are just bearable enough. One of these days, I might try to economy extra just for the curiosity but an international budget carrier, I'll steer clear from them.

[ninja]

I like the opening up of air travel for the masses because of the budget carriers. But if the traditional airlines can get their costs down AND still offer full-service, methinks the air travel market's not going to be all sweet for the LCCs.

[Dodi dodi]

Actually the business class passengers pay about HK$6,000 or so, which is like US$900 or so. So the airline makes over 100,000 US$ or so per flight, if the flight is full. I think it can profitably run, as long as occupancy is high.