Temporary Low Cost Travel Cafe

[attitudetravel]

Discussions ranged back and forth for nearly a quarter of a year, but at the start of this week, leading Spanish low cost airlines Vueling (an independent carrier) and Clickair (the budget airline subsidiary of Spanish flag-carrier Iberia) finally agreed to merge.

The merged company will, despite a majority shareholding by Iberia, continue to operate under the name Vueling.

Source: Vueling, Clickair to Merge by By Jason Sinclair and Santiago Perez

[attitudetravel]

Not the first merger we'll see this year, I'll wager.

Possible consolidation scenarios:

1) I can see Centralwings being absorbed into either Sky Europe or Wizz Air.

2) We might witness a merger of Volare Web and MyAir in Italy.

3) It's not totally out of the question that there might be a grand unification between Scandinavian low cost giants Sterling and Norwegian.

I'm sure there are many other possible scenarios - for any low cost airline under pressure from oil prices, I imagine that getting bought out is going to be a preferable option to going bust.

[MetalTraveller]