China's only budget airline, Spring Airlines, has abandoned a plan to charge passengers for check-in or carry-on baggage exceeding 5 kg, an airline spokesman said.
It involved cutting about 1, 000 jobs, dropping some international routes and launching new operations in Asia, where costs are lower, including a budget airline in Japan.
The surge seems to have caught Ryanair, surely Britons’ least-favourite budget airline, unaware.
Irish budget airline Ryanair has previously said it is considering charging passengers to use on-board toilets.
Although Ryanair counts Spanish Royalty amongst its customers, 32% of travellers surveyed said they were deterred from using a budget airline as such carriers attract bad mannered and loud passengers.
An Indonesian budget airline flight overshot the runway and plunged into the ocean of the resort island of Bali today.
One such new airline is Malaysia's AirAsia, a budget airline based in Kuala Lumpur that operates from a specially designed low-cost terminal.
Air India Express is a budget airline ran by state-run carrier.
The budget airline says the altercation began after some of the students were charged a fee for excess hand luggage.
In January, the Sarkozys also sued Irish budget airline Ryanair over an advert featuring Ms Bruni musing that, thanks to cheap flights, her Italian relatives would be able to attend their wedding.
China's only budget airline Spring Airlines has abandoned a plan to charge passengers for check-in or carry-on baggage exceeding 5kg.
