News Forum - Zipair is the first budget airline to fly from Asia to the US

[Thaiger]

As tourists finally begin to take to the skies again, a low-cost airline in Japan is set to become the first budget carrier to fly from Asia to North America. Zipair Tokyo Inc announced today that it is launching flight service between Tokyo’s Narita Airport and Los Angeles International Airport in California, the first budget airline to do so. Zipair is a subsidiary of Japan Airlines that started flying in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic last year, apparently faring better than 2 budget airlines that had aimed to launch in Thailand until the pandemic hit. Now Zipair is stretching […]

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[gummy]

Zipair, an interesting name but perhaps when pronounced in Japanese it doesn't sound as bad

[BIGGLES]

According to an article in Travel Daily, the General Director of the Airports of Thailand, who run the six main airports, have reported 80% of foreign airline slots, have been returned for the period of 31st October until the end of next March. 

How the hell are people going to get to Thailand, in the numbers that are thrown around by the government, with only a 20% air travel uplift?

Clearly they're not, and the government know this.

[Cathat]

The idea behind zipair looks like it was to complete directly with air asia Japan and hopefully put them out of business before they built up market share.

Given the pandemic has dealt with that it will be interesting to see what happens with this airline.

 

 

 

 

[Stardust]

16 hours ago, gummy said:

Zipair, an interesting name but perhaps when pronounced in Japanese it doesn't sound as bad

I was thinking the same and if they have zips instead doors.

[Poolie]

10 hours ago, BIGGLES said:

According to an article in Travel Daily, the General Director of the Airports of Thailand, who run the six main airports, have reported 80% of foreign airline slots, have been returned for the period of 31st October until the end of next March. 

How the hell are people going to get to Thailand, in the numbers that are thrown around by the government, with only a 20% air travel uplift?

Clearly they're not, and the government know this.

They haven't reported the number snapped up by others. You're assuming that it was 'here's 80% back, end of story' which, of course, is what you're meant to do.

They wont give the filled slots number. You could probably find out.

[RampantRabbit]

IM cringing already at the thought of   a  flight in economy from Thailand to the U.S