ANA not yet in low-cost alliance but subsidiary Vanilla does

ANA not yet in low-cost alliance but subsidiary Vanilla does

ANA Holdings Inc clarified on Monday that its flagship full-service carrier All Nippon Airways (ANA) has not become a member of the world's largest low-cost carrier (LCC) alliance known as Value Alliance.

However, it confirmed that its budget airline subsidiary Vanilla Air has retained a membership of Value Alliance (VA) which it helped founded in May this year along with seven other airline groups.

An ANA spokesman provided the clarification following ANA Holdings’ acquisition a 15% stake in Air Black Box Asia Pacific Pte Ltd (ABBAP).

ABBAP joint venture founded by Singapore's long-haul low-cost carrier Scoot, Thailand's Nok Air and VaultPAD Ventures Ltd, provides cloud-based airline passenger software platforms, which are instrumental to VA's move to connect diverse member airlines and cooperate in business.

The Philippines-based budget airline group Cebu Air Inc, also a founding member of VA, has at the same time bought a 15% stake in the VA joint venture.

Insiders who are familiar with ABBAP operations said the full-service ANA does not want to exploit the benefits offered by VA now because they would complicate its standing membership with Star Alliance.

Star Alliance is one of the world's largest global full-service airline alliances.

The holdings in ABBAP of ANA Holdings and Cebu Air were made with Nok Air and Scoot each reduced their stakes in ABBAP from 25% to 15%, while VaultPAD Ventures trimmed its stake from 50% to 40%.


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