{"id":172946,"date":"2025-02-05T12:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T02:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/what-went-wrong-asia-low-cost-carrier-alliances\/"},"modified":"2025-02-05T12:00:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T02:00:15","slug":"what-went-wrong-with-asias-ambitious-low-cost-airline-alliances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=172946","title":{"rendered":"What Went Wrong With Asia&#8217;s Ambitious Low-Cost Airline Alliances?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2012573\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/asia-low-cost-landscape-explained\/\" >East and Southeast Asia have their fair share of low-cost airlines<\/a><\/span> (including             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"256465\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/airasia\/\"  >AirAsia<\/a><\/span>, Lucky Air,             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254920\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/scoot\/\"  >Scoot<\/a><\/span>, VietJet, Peach, and many others). In 2016, the world saw the formation of two significant Asian low-cost alliances, U-FLY and Value Alliance. At the time, some thought these could be the shape of things to come, ushering in a new era of low-cost alliances providing their answer to the established alliances like             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255348\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/oneworld\/\"  ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static0.simpleflyingimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/oneworld_logo.png\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>oneworld<\/a><\/span>,             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255964\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/star-alliance\/\"  ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static0.simpleflyingimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/star-alliance-icon.png\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>Star Alliance<\/a><\/span>, and             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"256203\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/skyteam\/\"  ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static0.simpleflyingimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/skyteam_logo-1.png\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>SkyTeam<\/a><\/span>. But within a few short years, these alliances seem to have fizzled and gone out with a whimper. The main clue they are no longer functioning is that their websites are no longer active.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asia&#8217;s two low-cost airline alliances founded in 2016 seem to no longer function and failed a few years after being founded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,8265,9479,231,13240,1041],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airline-alliances","category-alliances","category-asia","category-commercial-aviation","category-low-cost-carrier"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172947,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172946\/revisions\/172947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}