LCCs take advantage of regional airports where costs are lower and this has increased the number of destinations available. For example, it has made it easier for the British to make frequent trips to their second homes in rural France, and to take advantage of cheap city breaks in a number of East European countries. However, this opens up tourism in regions that are not always prepared in the early years of the LCC service. This can lead to unregulated accommodation development, often of low quality, and poor destination management on the part of ill-prepared local authorities.
In summary, the Civil Aviation Authority (2006) argues that whilst the media thinks of LCCs as a revolution in travel, in fact they may simply be an evolution. There has been no technological breakthrough; rather the revolution is in terms of the business approach. Equally, FSAs are now adopting many of the business ideas of the LCCs and so we are seeing a ‘convergence’ of what were two very different the types of carriers.