Temporary Low Cost Travel Cafe

[onebir]

Not strictly an LCC, but Etihad's fares are often competitive. And based in the UAE (ie with a petrocurrency on it's side) the carrier's probably better equipped than most to cope with high oil prices.

Over the last few days:
- appointed a new manager for Asia Pacific/Australia ( story)
- announced a codeshare deal with India's Jet Airways (story
and
- announced a sale on flights from Kuwait to London, Manchester and Frankfurt (Kuwaiti Dinars 99=GBP190 odd - not sure about taxes) story)

This doesn't seem to be the behaviour of an airline in retrenchment mode. There's also been some continuing positive news from LCCs from the middle East &/other oil producers (eg Indonesia, Malaysia). Maybe these countries are likely to provide the most positive developments in the LCC sector over the short-medium term future.