TURBULENCE is forecast for the profits of the airline sector despite higher passenger numbers as rising costs from higher fuel prices are matched against the pressure of lower air fares with the swarm of new budget carriers taking off all around Asia.
Analysts say the abolition on Nov 1 of the Market Development Programme (MDP), the Malaysia Airlines-led price-fixing cartel, was an inevitable result of these pressures.
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