mrskyguy From United States of America, joined Aug 2008, 1203 posts, RR: 3 Posted (5 months 3 weeks 5 days 20 hours ago) and read 2346 times:
Easrlier in the year, I was watching the development of LCC competition in Japan with interest. Peach Aviation (dba "Peach") was planning to introduce a "clean" LCC product as a JV of ANA. Since the first flight in March, mums the word.
PHX787 From Japan, joined Mar 2012, 4959 posts, RR: 14 Reply 3, posted (5 months 3 weeks 5 days 9 hours ago) and read 1919 times:
Quoting YLWbased (Reply 2): they seems to be doing fine at the moment, however things may change with Air Asia Japan going international in the near future.
Buddy of mine is training to fly with Peach beginning next year in March. Says the airline is doing quite well. Seems like LCCs in Japan are doing quite well.
Excuse the self plug here but if you are interested, take a look at my trip report from earlier this year. Not so much in the way of news but might be of some interest.
Quoting davidho1985 (Reply 1): Recently, they have moved their operation to Terminal 2 (new dedicated LCC terminal) in Osaka.
I don't think the new terminal is an LCC terminal. I think that it is solely for the use of Peach (though I could be wrong!). KIX has announced their plan to build another new terminal which will a dedicated LCC terminal for all other LCCs.
Quoting PHX787 (Reply 3): Buddy of mine is training to fly with Peach beginning next year in March.
Good stuff! Girl I know will start training to be an FA on Peach in January next year.
GCT64 From United Kingdom, joined Nov 2007, 1104 posts, RR: 1 Reply 7, posted (5 months 3 weeks 2 days 3 hours ago) and read 818 times:
Anna Aero have been covering this market quite extensively. A report on 24 Oct 12: http://www.anna.aero/2012/10/24/peac...6pc-of-japanese-domestic-capacity/
Says that LCCs are approaching 4% of domestic capacity and the "Jetstar Japan currently leads the way among the newcomers with 1.7% of the market, followed by Peach (1.2%) and AirAsia Japan (0.7%)."
There is a table showing the Nov 12 breakdown for 13 domestic airlines, ANA still has just over 50% of the market.
Sponsor Message: 
From United States of America, joined Aug 2008, 1203 posts, 
From Hong Kong, joined Oct 2012, 132 posts, 
From Japan, joined Mar 2012, 4959 posts, 
From United Kingdom, joined Nov 2007, 1104 posts, 
Printer friendly format 
