Southeast Asia banks on aviation boom

Major airport expansion projects are taking off across Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam, and a new airline is set to launch next year. 

But there are doubts about whether it will materialize in an uncertain economic environment and as worries about the impact of travel on climate change deepen. Thailand's Really Cool Airlines is expected to start flying between Bangkok and Japan around mid-2024, but its CEO says it has been a battle to launch a new carrier just after a pandemic.

He added "Southeast Asia is going to be probably one of the centres of the universe in the future, with the slowdown in Europe, and in the US."