Low-cost airlines to take off in the Middle East | GulfNews.com

Low-cost airlines to take off in the Middle East | GulfNews.com:

"Low-cost carriers (LLC) operating in the United Arab Emirates could be poised to increase market share despite dominance by state-owned full service airlines.
“The region’s LCCs sector continue to expand at a faster pace than the more traditional airline sectors in the region,” Simon Elsegood, Senior Analyst (Middle East & Africa) at Capa – Centre for Aviation, said in an email.
Last year the LLCs in the Middle East grew to 13.5 per cent, a modest 1.8 per cent increase on the previous year according to travel and tourism IT solutions company Amadeus. The increase was the second-highest globally after the Asian market.
The low-cost model has only existed in the Middle East for a little over a decade and has yet to reach the heights of the European, North American and Oceania markets, where low-cost carriers take more than 30 per cent of the market share."

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