Volantio CEO Update AMAS

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Azim Barodawala:Different fare classes in the United States are giving customers more choices around how they want to travel. So if they want to travel with a bag, they can do that. If they don't want to travel with a bag, they can do that as well. Whereas, you know, in the past they didn't have that degree of choice. And I think that those changes are here to stay. Look, I think there's still a lot of secondary airports that ULCCs can fly out of. Obviously, that's not the focus 100% of what we do, but just as an industry watcher, I think there's lots of opportunities for ultra-low-cost carriers to think about ways that they can connect point-to-point places that may in the past not have been connected. Allegiant's a good example of a carrier that's been doing that and doing it very successfully. Thank you. I mean, I think you're already sort of seeing this with certain— I think LATAM announced that they're going to be looking at potentially having a low-cost carrier within the brand of the bigger LATAM group. I mean, the question is how we define hybrid. Is it hybrid within a specific airline, or is it hybrid within an airline group? And I was, as I mentioned, head of strategy at Jetstar, so there was a hybrid concept for the Qantas Group. Yeah. in that they had Qantas as the mainline carrier and Jetstar as the LCC. So it was hybrid at a group level, but each carrier maintained their own character. So, you know, Qantas was full service and Jetstar is and continues to be a very successful low-fares carrier. Thank you.

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