Spring Airlines avoids diversified investments and widebody aircraft
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Background ✨
Spring Airlines president Zhijie Wang said at CAPA’s LCCs in North Asia Summit that its priority remained domestic “big city to small city” routes, avoiding trunk “big city to big city” services due to fast rail competition1. Chairman Stephen Wang said delivery delays from Airbus constrained new routes and threatened slot retention, with 42 A320neos and 15 A321neos on order2. VP Zhang Wu'an said labour constraints limited 2023 fleet additions to five to six aircraft, despite 30 unfulfilled Airbus orders and a longer-term fleet ambition of 300 to 400 aircraft3.