Swallowing Mistakes

Air Wagon (Awair) almost went belly-up in its first year of business. Initial forecasts for success have been proven wrong.

February 20, 2001

Awair has been keeping a low profile for the past two weeks. With its logo symbolizing a swallow encapsulated by the world, the firm is no longer operating the Jakarta-Singapore, Jakarta-Denpasar or the Jakarta-Surabaya-Makassar routes. All that remain are Jakarta-Medan and Jakarta-Surabaya. This is due to reduced capacity: of the four Airbus 310-300 Awair started with, only two are left. One is sub-leased to Vietnam Air, while the other has been

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