Low-cost airlines stealing march on the competition

Low-cost airlines have fared much better than their more established rivals over the past year. EasyJet saw year-on-year volumes rise by 39% to 839,000 passengers to the end of March, while Ryanair saw the number of passengers increase by 48% to 1.02 million, according to figures from the airlines themselves. Go saw an even more spectacular increase of 81.5% to 429,000 passengers. Over the same period, British Airways saw a decline of 4.1% in passenger numbers. While the environment for national carriers like British Airways may have appeared gloomy recently, some managers have do...