Tiger starts 737 Domestic

[Lukas M]

VOR and VUB appear to be flying domestic revenue flights today. Green light for domestic flights now?

[Rowan McKeever]

The 'TT' B737s have been flying domestic for a week or so now. Not a 'green light' though, as such - the tech crew on these aircraft are still VA and the B737 is not on TT's AOC.

[Shaal L]

is 3 of their a320s not in service? . seems VND has gone to Philippines and vnf/vnr ?

also what has VUD been doing? been flying back and forth mel/adl with the odd one to Syd

[Rowan McKeever]

VND seems to have flown off-shore for maintenance?

VNF seemed to have flown BNE-MEL mid-last week in preparation for commencing international ops (as did XUH MEL-ADL), and has only flown once since (a circuit around MEL earlier today).

VNR I've no idea but may just be routine maintenance.

VUD has been operating training sectors as part of the efforts to train TT crew on the type.

[Lukas M]

Anyone know who is picking up the Tiger Airbus fleet over the next year?

Possibly Jetstar might take a few?

[Zac M]

Possibly into storage, to Scoot (Tigerair Singapore) maybe...depends on the Lessor. I think JQ can be ruled out given the huge number of A320NEO family aircraft on order for QF group.

[Rowan McKeever]

is 3 of their a320s not in service? . seems VND has gone to Philippines and vnf/vnr ?

also what has VUD been doing? been flying back and forth mel/adl with the odd one to Syd

Another thought I had this morning is that perhaps, with the B737 crew training well underway, there just may not be enough TT pilots available to crew all of the A320s which, of course, also don't ALL need to be in service at the moment because (a) DPS is no more and (b) 3 of the B737s are also operating on domestic.

[Shaal L]

could be. it does seem though the 3 737 are operating to cover the 3 a320 not operating

[Rowan McKeever]

That's what I meant :) It's kind of a circular thing, I guess - A320s are out due to reduced overall flying and TT crew being transferred to B737, B737s are flying domestic because of reduced overall flying and the B737s pinching A320 crews. The two things are very much inter-related.

[Yusef D]

As yet Tigerair aren't certified to fly passenger 737 ops. All TT 737 flights are operated by Virgin Australia International. The pilots are less than thrilled.

[Lukas M]

Tiger could maybe send some A320s to VARA for either fleet replacement or even growth. VARA A320 VH-FNP is 24yrs old.

Tigers oldest is 12yrs being VNB,J,P

[MarkR]

I would imagine the VARA A320s are provided at a far lower cost than any of the ex Tiger aircraft who are also leased.

[Dave J]

VNQ and VNK will be leaving the TT fleet shortly. VOR will be returning to the TT fleet at the end of the year.