The final leg of the journey was on a low-cost airline called EasyJet.
EasyJet said Michael Rake is stepping down as chairman of the low-cost airline later this year.
The carrier, Jetstar Hong Kong, will be the first low-cost airline based in Hong Kong, according to Qantas.
His aim has been to run a low-cost airline with high standards, both in terms of cleanliness and reliability.
EasyJet, a British low-cost airline, is also building up its fleet and routes.
One such is Gol, Latin America's first publicly traded low-cost airline, which is not allowed to sell control to foreigners.
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The airport blamed the fall on the loss of low-cost airline bmibaby.
Southwest, the innovative low-cost airline that spawned imitators such as Ryanair, the European airline, has announced its first financial loss in 17 years.
On July 16th flydubai, a low-cost airline based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), launched no-frills flights to Erbil, capital of Iraq's Kurdish region.
The expansion at Stansted arguably fostered the low-cost airline industry by offering it cheap landing rights there but it failed to relieve congestion at Heathrow.
Passenger numbers at Cardiff Airport dropped by 200, 000 last year, with the airport blaming a cut in capacity by a low-cost airline and the ash cloud.
There was a further fall in the first half of 2012 to 440, 000 from 558, 000 - a decline the airport blamed on the departure of low-cost airline bmibaby.
The second-ranked airline in terms of overall quality was low-cost airline Jet Blue, which posted better than average performance in terms of on-time arrivals, mishandled bags and customer complaints.
In 2005 Air Deccan, the largest low-cost airline at the time, offered a Delhi-Hyderabad round trip for 3, 000 rupees, lower than the 5, 000 rupee fare for ac first class in the railways.
In January Tilton proposed to split off a big chunk of the carrier later this year and turn it into a low-cost airline, rumored to be named Starfish, that could compete with JetBlue and Southwest.
His low-cost airline, Virgin America, celebrated its first year of flying in August, but Alaska Airlines recently filed a complaint that its rival is violating U.S. foreign ownership rules on domestic airlines and asked the U.S. Department of Transportation to conduct a public inquiry.
Two books came out about JetBlue, not a particularly remarkable low-cost American airline.
At the end of last year it floated Virgin Express, a low-cost European airline, in Belgium and on America's Nasdaq exchange.
The South African National Taxi Council, representing some 95% of taxi operators, has aired the idea of launching a low-cost taxi airline to cater for the urban poor, few of whom have been anywhere near a plane.
At East London airport, 1time, a low-cost South African airline, informed me that my ticket to Johannesburg had been cancelled.
It seems that management wants to run a premium airline on a low-cost budget.
It is understood the airport has not received any offers from other airline companies to operate low-cost flights.
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The no-frills airline works like most low cost airlines in the world.
Started in 2000 with only one plane, Lion Air has grown into Indonesia's largest airline mostly by sticking to low-cost domestic flights across the 17, 000-island archipelago.
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Huntsville is neither a hub for a major airline, nor home to a low-cost carrier.
Low-cost carriers now control more than half of Southeast Asia's airline market.
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