Budget airlines expected to gain from Asean's open skies

Wed, May 18, 2016 - 5:50 AM

Despite having relatively little domestic traffic, Changi Airport has three terminals which can handle 66 million passengers and served 55 million in 2015, the most in South-east Asia. Work has begun on two more terminals.

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Singapore

LOW-COST airline groups and manufacturers of smaller passenger aircraft will be among the main winners after South-east Asia's open skies agreement finally came into effect last month, although airport capacity constraints could limit the benefits.

Ratification of the...