New Air Alliance
January 2, 2007
By NICK HODGSON
VIRGIN and easyJet are to team up with an Asian airline to create the world’s first budget global network, it emerged yesterday.
Richard Branson’s Virgin and easyJet’s Stelios Haji-Ioannou will join forces with AirAsia to form a Malaysia-based alliance.
A newspaper in the south-east Asian country quoted industry sources as saying the new venture would first fly between Kuala Lumpur and Manchester, and Amritsar in India.
The paper also said if the alliance decided to fly to London it could use Luton airport.
Fares to Britain will be between pounds 63 and pounds 365, about half the price of a regular airline.
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