Originally Posted by
hfly
The provinces of Dragonair were totally different and had to do with the needs at the time for an airline with a different shareholding structure in order to operate far more routes from HKG to the mainland, and had little to do with operating costs.
Indeed, KA is a bit of special case in its history, which is probably the reason it survived and survives. CX tried to kill them initially, and then eventually just took them over for the mainland access as they evolved.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathay_Dragon
Joon...in the end just another in a long series of ‘LCC started within an airline’ failures.
I guess we could bring AC Rouge into the discussion as a potential ‘success’ as well...and that is mainly to compete against AirTransat on tourist long haul routes.