*Macau LCC hopes to flyinto local cities of Japan first

Preparing for the beginning of flight business in March next year, Macau Eagle Aviation Service, the Macau-based low cost carrier (LCC), recently joined North Asia Low Cost Airline Symposium in Kitakyushu City,Fukuoka Prefecture. The start-up airline CEO Andrew Pyne, who visited Japan to attend the Symposium, said at an interview with the Wing Aviation Press, "We hope to fly into Japan first by 2007. Our target destinations are not large cities, such as Tokyo or Osaka,but local cities like Kitakyushu, Sendai or Komatsu."

This Week Headline
*Macau LCC hopes to fly into local cities of Japan first
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