How can LCCs lead the industry in tech adoption and experience strategies while keeping fares low?

by | Mar 25, 2025 | Airlines, Digital Transformation, Interviews, On-demand

Keynote Panel at Aviation Festival Asia 2025: “How can LCCs lead the industry in tech adoption and experience strategies while keeping fares low?”

Henry Harteveldt, Travel Industry Analyst, Atmosphere Research Group (Moderator), John Simeone, CEO, Jetstar Asia Airways, Steven Greenway, CEO, flyadeal, Aloke Singh, Managing Director, Air India Express, and Mike Szucs, CEO, Cebu Pacific Air.

Low-Cost Carriers (LCCs) must balance cost efficiency and growth against rapidly evolving market dynamics and technological advancements. This is a delicate balance but if navigated correctly, it can solidify their position as agile, efficient, industry leaders.

This keynote panel with LCC leaders from across APAC and the Gulf region takes 50-minutes to unpack:

  • Economic uncertainty and its impact on demand: The potential impact of tariffs and how GDP correlates to traffic demand for LCCs.
  • Growth opportunities and demand drivers: Exploring areas that present a significant opportunity for each carrier and which emerging markets/non-hub airports have the most potential.
  • Evaluating the affordability and practicality of artificial intelligence: Will it be the “keys to the kingdom” or vapourware?
  • Mobile apps: Which apps (inside and outside the industry) are setting the benchmark for airlines to work towards?
  • Cost pressures and maintaining low fares: Navigating rising airport costs and taxation while keeping fares competitive. How the ecosystem can work together to make the margins work.
  • Tech adoption – is there a pressure to be digital leaders? Looking at areas digitalisation and the LCC model work symbiotically.
  • Should LCC’s be prioritising innovation or perfecting the basics? Are the two mutually exclusive or is there a middle ground to be found?
  • Pushing for sustainability: Understanding the CEOs’ priorities when it comes to sustainability and the key measures that need to be taken.

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