Scott’s Cheap Flights
The company ceased operations on 9 April 2008, after over a billion Hong Kong dollars in losses. By mid-2013, these new LCCs have been working at a unit price of round eight yen per seat-kilometer, in comparison with 10–11 yen per seat-kilometer for domestic legacy airways. However, their unit price was still much higher than the three yen per seat-kilometer for AirAsia in Malaysia, as a outcome of higher value of landing charges and personnel in Japan. Often this CASM advantage has been attributed solely to the lower labor costs of the newly employed and decrease pay grade staff of…
