A bit more info on a couple of the starters............
Low-cost for the long-haul
By Charles Anderson
Two veterans of the Hong Kong aviation scene, Steve Miller and Andrew Pyne, are involved in attempts to start long-distance, low-cost airlines.
Miller, an aviation consultant who was the first chief executive of Hong Kong Dragon Airlines when it was founded 20 years ago, has been named as chief executive of Oasis Hong Kong Airlines.
The new carrier will concentrate on long-haul routes from Hong Kong International Airport. Backers are reported to include an American property developer and one of Hong Kong’s top electronics moguls.
The airline, which aims to launch by the year-end using a small fleet of Boeing B747-400s or Airbus A340-300s, is to target tour groups and holiday travellers looking for low-priced flights to Europe. North American cities may be added later.
Pyne, head of international affairs at Cathay Pacific Airways until last year, is a director of Macau Eagle Aviation Services, which plans to launch WOW Macau by early autumn. It is looking to lease Boeing 767s and 757s and is exploring the availability of routes under a possible agreement with Air Macau, which has first call on them as the city’s home carrier. Virgin Blue has also been wooing Air Macau over the 'formation of a joint-venture, low-cost carrier there.
Talks were said to be under way, at the time of writing, with both Macau and Hong Kong over which would become its base. If WOW Macau chooses the latter, its name will be WOW Asia.
from
Orient Aviation Magazine
Another couple re WOW!Macau................
WOW!Macau
(courtesy of Speedbreak, on another thread.)
and
This news item.
Is this another one?
\'CR Airways, has launched its first China scheduled service, to Nanning in Guangxi province, flying twice daily, three times a week. It plans to follow soon with Jinan and Wengzhou and said it will add secondary cities that need point-to-point services for business travellers. Dragonair does not operate to those first three destinations.
CR Airways, owned by Hong Kong business-man Robert Yip, is currently operating two 50-seat Bombardier CRJ200s, which it plans to swap for larger CRJ700s. It runs charter services to Laoag, the Philippines, Siem Reap, Phuket, Langkawi and Danang in Vietnam.\'
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