Value Alliance - Cheap Flights Within Asia & From Australia

[Highlander]

This is excellent news and will start a price war with all the regional budget airlines in the Asia / Oceana region.

This will make Jetstar and Air Asia shit their pants.

Here in Perth, we only have one airline that flies direct to BKK (Thai Airways), all the others go via KL and Singapore typrically.

The other day Air Asia's sale ended, and where I could have bought a return return from Perth to U-Tapao Pattaya (via KL) for about $380 so I wonder what Air Asia will do after the announcement yesterday. 

This will be good for people who travel from wherever they live to Singapore or KL (if there is a sale on that specific route) and cheaply get either a direct to both Thailand or other parts of Asia.

With budget flights, I find travelling with Air Asia on long haul flights is not as good as Jetstar as I am 5'11" (smaller seat area), and they usually put me next to the fat buy so they balance the load on the flight. (unless I pay extra pick my seat)

This will also be good for people travelling to Phi as Cecu Pacific is one of the alliance members.

 

 

http://australianaviation.com.au/2016/05/tigerair-australia-joins-new-pan-asian-low-cost-carrier-alliance/

http://www.valuealliance.com/

 

http://www.smh.com.au/business/aviation/tigerair-australia-scoot-and-other-budget-carriers-team-up-for-alliance-20160513-gou9bn.html

 

 

Tigerair Australia joins new pan-Asian low cost carrier alliance

 

May 16, 2016 by Tom Ballantyne 6 Comments

Value Alliance airline bosses Katsuya Goto president of Vanilla Air, Robert Sharp CEO of Tigerair Australia, Lee Lik Hsin CEO of Tigerair, Campbell Wilson CEO of Scoot, Piya Yodmani CEO of Nok Scoot, Patee Sarasin CEO of Nok Air, Ken Choi CEO of Jeju Air and Michael Szucs chief executive adviser of Cebu Pacific.

Eight of Asia’s low cost carriers, including Virgin Australia-owned budget subsidiary Tigerair Australia, have broken new ground in the no-frills sector, forging an LCC alliance aimed at giving members a significant boost in network spread and lifting their ability to increase revenue. Announced in Singapore today (Monday) and known as the Value Alliance, it is the world’s first pan-regional LCC alliance. Along with Tigerair Australia, members are Cebu Pacific from the Philippines plus Cebu Pacific subsidiary Cebgo, Korea’s Jeju Air, Thailand’s Nok Air and NokScoot, Singapore budget long-haul subsidiary Scoot, Tigerair Singapore and Japan’s Vanilla Air, owned by All Nippon Airways.

Tigerair Australia chief executive Rob Sharp, in Singapore for the launch, said the alliance will provide greater value, connectivity and choice for travel throughout the Asia Pacific region as the partner airlines bring their extensive networks together. Last year, the member airlines collectively served more than 46 million travellers from 17 hubs across the region.

Sharp said the new partnership is a win-win for every Value Alliance airline delivering significant benefits for Tigerair Australia customers.

“Tigerair Australia customers will be able to view, select and book the best available fares and optional extras like meals and seat selection from any partner airline in a single transaction, directly from the Tigerair Australia website. This is a major milestone for Tigerair Australia, expanding our existing network from 21 routes and 12 destinations to span one third of the world to over 160 destinations throughout the Asia Pacific region. By working together we can enable more people to travel for less to more places than ever before in a single transaction from the convenience of each airline’s website. It’s a great fit for Tigerair Australia which is all about delivering value, choice and innovation.”

Sharp said Tigerair Australia is in the process of adapting the innovative technology developed by Air Black Box (ABB) to sell connecting fares throughout Asia Pacific on the new Value Alliance partner distribution network.

The Value Alliance airlines, who together cover a third of the earth and more than 160 destinations across the Asia Pacific region, will strengthen distribution in their non-home markets, expand their saleable networks via the provision of interline itineraries, retain their ancillary revenue opportunities and offer their customers a better, one-stop-shop experience.

Membership to the Value Alliance is by invitation only. In 2015 its member airlines collectively served more than 47 million travellers from 17 hubs.

Unlike legacy interline technologies, the ABB technology allows customers to enjoy the full suite of ancillary choices offered by  LCCs – such as seat and meal selection, variable baggage allowances and other inflight features – across all partner airline sectors in a single itinerary. ABB’s ACE platform has been certified at the first stage leading to full NDC certification later this year.

It is a major development in the no-frills world. Until now the only partnerships with the ability to co-ordinate to this extent have been groups of LCCs within the same ownership structure, such as Tigerair Singapore, Scoot and NokScoot, all owned or part owned by Singapore Airlines. For the first time travellers will be able to view, select and book the best-available airfares on flights from any of the airlines in a single transaction, directly from each partner website, thanks to technology developed by ABB.

It is not known whether the alliance will eventually expand into other areas of efficiency gains such as joint maintenance or group purchasing. However, it is understood the original eight members are keen for other LCCs in the region to join up.

Cabin crew at the launch of the new Value Alliance. From left to right: Cebu Pacific, Jeju Air, Nok Air, NokScoot, Scoot, Tigerair Australia, Tigerair and Vanilla Air.

 

[Highlander]

Bump

[sadisfied]

Was reading about this yesterday. I don't see how this alliance will help me on my usual Singapore to Bangkok/Pattaya flights.

 

But maybe it will if I go beyond these and on to the destinations served by only NokAir for example. We'll have to wait until their websites get connected

[Nando9999]

I doubt itd help with your simple A-B flight, but as you touched on, it should assist for bookings that require use of 2 or more airlines if they make so you could book it all on one itinerary.

 

Not sure itll make Jetstar shit their pants yet though, Jetstar fly direct to the popular destinations from Aus which is a massive advantage over having to change over.

[Atlas]

Only Thai fyl non stop to Brisbane, hopefully this may change now

[Tarl]

Will be interesting to see what the advantages are. Not sure I understand why this will mean direct flights

[Nando9999]

Only Thai fyl non stop to Brisbane, hopefully this may change now

Going by current member routes, youll be changing in Manila or Changi to get to Thailand. Still probably works well for Brisvegas folk pricewise as AA dont fly there.

[Tarl]

Going by current member routes, youll be changing in Manila or Changi to get to Thailand. Still probably works well for Brisvegas folk pricewise as AA dont fly there.

Those routes are pretty well serviced by Scoot snd AA now but from the Gold Coast. Reason it is from the GC is the airport tax and carrier surcharges are very small and allows for the cheaper fares than if they flew out of the Bne International.

[MFKS]

I don't see it as a good thing for prices. It has taken competition out of the equation.

 

Handy for those wishing to use different airlines and the benefits of being checked right through at departure though

[THE DOCTOR]

I can see on the Map, one flight  think by the color chart  "tiger singapore",,

Actualy lands in the Ocean southwest of India, 

thats a flight to avoid if ever there was one,,  

[Highlander]

Was reading about this yesterday. I don't see how this alliance will help me on my usual Singapore to Bangkok/Pattaya flights.

 

But maybe it will if I go beyond these and on to the destinations served by only NokAir for example. We'll have to wait until their websites get connected

By all accounts it will help you as both Jet Star and Air Asia fly out of Singapore to Bangkok and both airlines are part of the reason for the new alliance

[Highlander]

Only Thai fyl non stop to Brisbane, hopefully this may change now

We have the same problem on Perth, but I suspect it will mean a cheaper flight via Singapore.

 

I can fly with a budget airline to Bangkok for somewhere close to between 1/3 to 1/2 the cost of flying with Thai so a couple of hour stopover in Changi is not an issue.

 

Nice that the 2 main budget airlines are going to squirm because of this new alliance.

[Nando9999]

I can see on the Map, one flight think by the color chart "tiger singapore",,

Actualy lands in the Ocean southwest of India,

thats a flight to avoid if ever there was one,,

Maldives? if you value your wallet youll avoid it for sure haha

[THE DOCTOR]

Maldives, is correct. Top marks to you 

just searched Google earth, 

Looking at todays news, and searching Google again i Cant see any airports on the noth tip of Egypt 

but here's hoping Alls well that ends well ,,