Originally Posted by
CoMooter
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.
Which in a way shows what an idiotic setup JOON was from the start. ROUGE was set up by Ben Smith, so he knows about the potential benefits of a different in-house brand and how to make it successful - but still chose to close down JOON when he saw it.