South-East Asia banks on aviation boom


Patee Sarasin, CEO of Thailand's soon-to-be launched Really Cool Airlines, posing for a photograph in Bangkok. - AFP

BANGKOK: Major airport expansion projects are taking off across Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam, and a new airline is set to launch next year -- all banking on an expected boom in air travel in South-East Asia, fuelled by Chinese and Indian tourists.

But there are doubts about whether it will materialise in an uncertain economic environment and as worries about the impact of travel on climate change deepen.

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