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05-17-2016, 12:04 PM
8 Asian budget airlines team up to form 'world's biggest' low-cost group
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Soon, you'll be able to view and book flights from eight budget airlines without opening multiple tabs to tally prices and schedules.
The world's largest low-cost carrier group **w comprises*Singapore's Scoot and Tigerair, Tigerair Australia,*Cebu Pacific in the Philippines, Thailand's **k Air and **kScoot, Jeju Air in South Korea and Vanilla Air in Japan.*
SEE ALSO: Flying a budget airline for the holidays? Beware the baggage fees (http://mashable.com/2015/11/05/holiday-baggage-fees/)
Together, the eight have christened the group Value Alliance (http://www.valuealliance.com/), and cover 160 destinations in Southeast Asia, **rth Asia and Australia — or a third of the globe.
Travellers will be able to book flights across the eight in one itinerary. On the backend, the system is powered by a new UK-based tech firm*called Air Black Box (http://www.webintravel.com/value-alliance-breakthrough-low-cost-airline-distribution/), which***kScoot put $1 million into. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/05/17/value-alliance/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Soon, you'll be able to view and book flights from eight budget airlines without opening multiple tabs to tally prices and schedules.
The world's largest low-cost carrier group **w comprises*Singapore's Scoot and Tigerair, Tigerair Australia,*Cebu Pacific in the Philippines, Thailand's **k Air and **kScoot, Jeju Air in South Korea and Vanilla Air in Japan.*
SEE ALSO: Flying a budget airline for the holidays? Beware the baggage fees (http://mashable.com/2015/11/05/holiday-baggage-fees/)
Together, the eight have christened the group Value Alliance (http://www.valuealliance.com/), and cover 160 destinations in Southeast Asia, **rth Asia and Australia — or a third of the globe.
Travellers will be able to book flights across the eight in one itinerary. On the backend, the system is powered by a new UK-based tech firm*called Air Black Box (http://www.webintravel.com/value-alliance-breakthrough-low-cost-airline-distribution/), which***kScoot put $1 million into. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/05/17/value-alliance/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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