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Old 4th Mar 2009, 01:25
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PAXboy
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If going away for a couple of weeks it's tricky to be checking-in for the return flight on the same day you are departing!
Not to worry. All that space that was taken up by check-in desks? The airport managers will be renting it to people running Internet Cafés selling online time at a premium charge in increments of 15 minutes.

Considering BladePilot's summation of the LCC approach (not all LCCs, of course) one of the things that you see now is that some LCCs are changing airports. Perhaps this is the business model:
  1. Get paid to deliver pax on new routes (or near to zero cost)
  2. Build the route
  3. Demand more subsidy for the extra pax
  4. If none arrives, move the route and start again
There will be a limit as to how many times you can do that but, if I'm right, it's a plan that is working.
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