AIR TRANSPORT AND AIRPORTS
Gulf low-cost carriers push into secondary Indian and African cities
Jazeera and its peers are opening routes the full-service carriers will not fly, and finding the traffic already exists.
Aerospace Garage desk
Gulf low-cost carriers are adding routes to Indian and African cities that the region’s full-service airlines have never served — places with substantial migrant worker populations and no direct connection to the Gulf.
The demand was always there; it simply routed through Delhi, Mumbai or Nairobi with a connection. Removing that connection is worth more to passengers than a lower fare.
The constraint is bilateral rights rather than aircraft. Several of these markets cap frequencies, and negotiations move slowly.
Our read: watch traffic-rights announcements, not route launches. The rights are the scarce asset.
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