Over a third of all airline seats in Europe today are on a low cost carrier. In the Americas the figure is 31% and in Asia Pacific it is 26%.
Midas Aviation, a team of aviation specialists suggests that the problem is not that Africa is immune to the lure and benefits of the low-cost phenomenon, just that the take up is happening from a lower base level than 10 years ago.
This gives hope. Given time, and more steady growth like this, African air travellers will be able to take advantage of the low fare travel that consumers elsewhere do.
As we look across the Continent, however, there are some major differences in low-cost carrier penetration. North and Southern Africa have the highest proportion of low-cost capacity in 2017, at 15% and 17%, respectively. The low-cost share of capacity in both Eastern Africa and Central/Western Africa is at 6%.
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