Tiger to Sydney...and now Adelaide!!

[Lukas M]

My sister is cabin crew for Tiger, and she has been told that TT have gained slots and are flying to Sydney from July 3.

-ex MEL and ADL later on
-3/4 Daily. Will be increased this summer when more aircraft arrive.
-Everyday low fare of $68

Info and flights appear to be loaded now onto their website

[Justin L]

That's fantastic news! I just checked their website also. Any idea when the ADL services are due to start from SYD?

It will be interesting to see JQ's reaction. JQ's Avalon flights to/from ADL and PER were moved to Tullamarine partly due to Tiger's entry on flights to Melbourne from those cities.

[Nigel C]

Any idea where they'll be parking?

[Raymond Rowe]

Any idea where they'll be parking?


At a terminal near you.

[Nigel C]

That was one of your best Ray!:D

But I guess that depends on where I am at the time....;)

[Steve Jones]

Unsurprisingly, operations are from T2. Looks like 4 daily flights except 3 on Saturday.

[Craig Murray]

Great point you raise Justin. After all, not ever JQ passenger really wants to end up stranded at Avalon while trying to get to the city of Melbourne!

T2 really is becoming quite a hive of activity these days isn't it?

[Erik H. Bakke]

Is there really space for more operations out of T2 these days?
It looks quite packed every time I'm passing through.

[Oliver Gigacz]

Oliver, can you please read the entire thread before posting a reply to ensure we don't get information repeated. Thankyou -mod

[lloyd fox]

Erik Hi ,they wouldnt have signed up with SACL for T2 if there was no room.Obviously their schedules will fit in with terminal space availability.

Lloyd

[Andrew McLaughlin]

Reported by Ben Sandilands this morning too...

http://blogs.crikey.com.au/planetalking/2009/04/02/tiger-finds-sydney-on-map-of-australia/

[Andrew McLaughlin]

Now confirmed by SACL...

MEDIA RELEASE
www.sydneyairport.com
Welcome to Tiger Airways
Sydney Airport has welcomed Tiger Airways’ announcement that it will start flying from Sydney in July 2009.
Tiger Airways Australia will be expanding its network by adding the new Sydney-Melbourne route.
The CEO of Sydney Airport, Russell Balding, said that this is another great win for Sydney. “Sydney is Australia’s biggest tourist attraction and the extra choice Tiger Airways provides will give people from Melbourne an extra reason to visit Sydney. The entry of Tiger Airways into the Sydney market is a real boost for domestic tourism. Sydney Airport is a major contributor to Sydney’s economy and the arrival of Tiger Airways is very good news for all those people employed in Sydney’s tourism, hospitality, and related industries.
“Tiger Airways is also another option for Sydney travellers to consider when they next fly to Melbourne. Sydney Airport congratulates Tiger Airways on its decision to fly from Sydney and looks forward to working closely with Tiger Airways staff as they grow their operations,” Mr Balding said.
Tiger Airways will be flying from the T2 Terminal which has recently been upgraded with a larger food court as well as new carpet, seating and LCD monitors in gate lounges, refurbished bathrooms and extensive concourse re-tiling.
3 April 2009

[Hugh Jarse]

What? No cat cliché's, like "pounces", "stalks", "purring" in the latest press release :D:D

[Andrew McLaughlin]

What? No cat cliché's, like "pounces", "stalks", "purring" in the latest press release :D:D

There are only so many cat cliches, and I think they've all be done to death!
:rolleyes:

[Justin L]

From the Sydney Morning Herald (http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-news/lowcost-airline-plans-expansion-to-sydney-20090402-9l6l.html):

Low-cost airline plans expansion to Sydney
Lucy Battersby
April 3, 2009

LOWER air-traffic levels at Sydney airport has given Tiger Airways a chance to operate flights between Melbourne and Sydney, the airline announced last night.

From July 3 the foreign-owned Tiger Airways will fly four times daily along Australia's busiest flight path.

Tiger previously negotiated to use the Sydney Airport terminal, but there was insufficient capacity and the business conditions did not fit with Tiger's low-cost model.

Now, space has opened up as other airlines reduce their flights. "The runways (at Sydney) are less congested now because there is less traffic," Tiger managing director Shelley Roberts said last night.

"We are able to get facilities and there is capacity."

Before it was allowed to use Sydney Airport, Tiger was running flights to nearby Newcastle, but pulled out of that route early last year due to low demand.

"We have seen an overwhelming customer demand for the (Melbourne-Sydney) route and we have managed to find a way to do it that is consistent with our business model," Ms Roberts said.

Tiger opened an office in Adelaide in early March and recently added flights to Perth, Gold Coast and Hobart to its schedules.

A spokesman for Sydney airport said it would release a statement about the arrangement today. Tiger's plans are subject to regulatory approval.

[Grahame Hutchison]

Channel 7s Today Tonight program gave Tiger a real pasting tonight, issues with Tiger changing or cancelling flights. A cheap flight is only cheap if everything goes ok, suffer a Tiger cancellation or re-scheduling and you may as well have paid full price.

[Stefan Perkas]

Evening all,

Below are the schedules fot Tiger's MEL-SYD-MEL flights.

TT522 Dep MEL 0650 Arr SYD 0815 (Monday-Saturday's)
TT523 Dep SYD 0845 Arr MEL 1015 (Monday-Saturday's)

TT524 Dep MEL 1030 Arr SYD 1155 (Saturday's Only)
TT525 Dep SYD 1225 Arr MEL 1355 (Saturday's Only)

TT524 Dep MEL 1045 Arr SYD 1210 (Sunday's Only)
TT525 Dep SYD 1240 Arr MEL 1410 (Sunday's Only)

TT526 Dep MEL 1325 Arr SYD 1450 (Monday's and Friday's Only)
TT527 Dep SYD 1520 Arr MEL 1650 (Monday's and Friday's Only)

TT528 Dep MEL 1625 Arr SYD 1750 (Daily)
TT529 Dep SYD 1820 Arr MEL 1950 (Daily)

TT534 Dep MEL 1815 Arr SYD 1940 (Sunday's Only)
TT535 Dep SYD 2010 Arr MEL 2140 (Sunday's Only)

TT534 Dep MEL 1935 Arr SYD 2100 (Monday-Friday's)
TT535 Dep SYD 2130 Arr MEL 2300 (Monday-Friday's)

TT532 Dep MEL 2000 Arr SYD 2125 (Sunday's Only)
TT533 Dep SYD 2155 Arr MEL 2325 (Sunday's Only)

Overall:

Monday's, Friday's and Sunday's : 4 flights

Tuesday's, Wednesday's, Thursday's and Saturday's: 3 Flights

[Jarden S]

Will they be getting a 7th A320 to start these new flights in july or will they redeploy capacity from cutting back on flights elsewhere?

[Lukas M]

Will they be getting a 7th A320 to start these new flights in july or will they redeploy capacity from cutting back on flights elsewhere?
No new Aircraft due to later in the year. So they are offloading MEL-ADL-MEL to the Adelaide base, and there are a few gaps here and there, so they are managing to sqeeze capacity in...

[Jarden S]

No new Aircraft due to later in the year. So they are offloading MEL-ADL-MEL to the Adelaide base, and there are a few gaps here and there, so they are managing to sqeeze capacity in...

So thats how they are doing it. Tiger can't seem to get new A320s quick enough. If they had more of them by now, their third base of Gold Coast could be up and running. They could link up the dots in the network OOL to
Per, Adl, Mel, Hba and even Asp. It would be good for places like Mackay and Rocky to have new flights too

[Jarden S]

What I believe was the case before when they just started up flying from their first base (MEL) that they were to announce the second base shortly which ADL and OOL were the front runners to be chosen. However they spent 9-12 months before they announced the 2nd base. ADL was chosen as tiger got financial support from the state of SA. At the moment Gold Coast City Council is giving some $12 million a year to support jetstar expansion from OOL so may not have any $$$ left over to attract tiger to base a couple of A320's there. But I hope I am wrong....

[Michael Morrison]

They have also just announced a daily flight Adelaide-Sydney from 31st July.

[Justin L]

Here (http://airlineroute.blogspot.com/2009/05/tiger-airways-to-start-adelaide-sydney.html) is the schedule for ADL-SYD vv according to the "airline route updates" website.

Tiger Airways to start Adelaide - Sydney

Tiger Airways Australia from 31JUL09 launches 1 Daily Adelaide - Sydney service

TT842 ADL0605 - 0835SYD 320 6
TT842 ADL0700 - 0930SYD 320 7
TT844 ADL0950 - 1220SYD 320 24
TT846 ADL1745 - 2015SYD 320 135

TT843 SYD0905 - 1035ADL 320 6
TT843 SYD1000 - 1130ADL 320 7
TT845 SYD1250 - 1420ADL 320 24
TT847 SYD2045 - 2215ADL 320 135

An evening Sunday ADL-SYD would have been nice, but I am very happy with the late Friday and early (but not too early) Saturday morning SYD-ADL schedule!

[Lukas M]

A Tiger A320 should have made a visit this arvo.

[Brandon Giacomin]

According to the Sydney airport website it landed at 1500 from MEL as TT999.
It's due to depart at 1600 back to MEL.

[Michael Mak]

What is the purpose of this visit? Route proving?

[Lukas M]

Ground Crew familiarization? Does Aerocare handle any other aircraft domestic wise or any A320s at sydney?

[Dan Hammond]

Promotional run maybe?

[phil.l]

Anyone have a rego for this flight?

[Michael Morrison]

Does Aerocare handle any other aircraft domestic wise or any A320s at sydney?

Aerocare also start handling Jetstar International next week with A320's and A330's

[Lukas M]

There is a planned movement for tomorrow afternoon, 2.45pm arrival and should leave within the hour.

By the way, were is Gate 47? Is it used by A320's and 737s?

[Marty H]

Gate 47 is on the other pier that JQ use. Its a multi user part of domestic at SYD, DJ use it also.

[Gerard M]

TT522 arrived 8 minutes early and i believe the aircraft that operated it was VH-VNG. TT523 then departed on-time. Seems like their off to a good start time wise. On the airport website they had two arrivals(first one TT100) but only one departure. What happened to TT100?

http://www.smh.com.au/travel/tiger-flies-in-face-of-downturn-and-takes-on-sydney-market-20090702-d65r.html

[Lee G]

Gerald,

I last saw VNG surrounded by people in hi-vis (probably journos or staff) over at the VIP parking area.

I didn't even read this thread so when the A320 was lining up to land on 34L in the crosswind and was pointing nose on, I didn't know who it was. On the flare, it revealed itself! Totally surprised by this one.:eek:

http://www.jetphotos.net/img/1/5/4/9/91749_1246530945.jpg

[Chris Primmer]

Sometimes it's better to be lucky than good.

ChrisP

[Lee G]

Chris,

just wondering - did you happen to get a shot with the guy on the ladder in it and if so can you PM a copy?

[Lukas M]

Today's flight was more of a media flight, no pax on board. There was some thing also with the West Tiger's pulling the aircraft, they have just signed a sposorship deal or something with TT..

It seems that first revenue flight is tomorrow afternoon, with a 1450 arrival. Followed by two evening movements later on.

[Justin L]

The raw footage of the NRL Tigers' players pulling the plane can bee seen on the "Latest Video" section of the link below (it is the "Latest Video" at time of posting).

http://www.smh.com.au/national

[Debra Rettie]

I've had a look at the Tiger Airlines Website and the fares look very good although they only have four flights a day at the moment and the times are at the non-popular times for people to fly.

For my purpose when I fly to Melbourne later this year, I will be using Qantas as their times are more suitable to my needs. But with Tiger the times will probably be suited to the person who does not really care what time they fly

[Grahame Hutchison]

Tiger TT534 VH-VNC from Melbourne was just given a hold overhead TARAL at FL210. Now tracking in over RIVET for a Runway 34 arrival.

QF466 VH-VYJ was also placed into a holding pattern slightly south west of TARAL along with DJ885 VH-VUA and JQ748 VH-VQG.

[Lukas M]

Should be a new Tiger port announced soon

[Justin L]

Thanks for the information Lukas.

It seems a seventh A320 will be added to the Tiger fleet and based in Melbourne with services to begin by summer (click here (http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/business/story/0,28124,25755903-23349,00.html)).

It will be interesting to see how things pan out.

[Lukas M]

I was told their is an announcement today with Sydney. They are rumored to go up to 10+ Daily...

[Steve Jones]

Their booking engine is now showing 9 daily flights SYD-MEL and return and 2 daily to Adelaide.

[Stefan Perkas]

Afternoon all,

I know it is a little early but here are the tiger flight schedules for Melbourne- Sydney statring 04/10/09.

TT662 Dep MEL 0650 Arr SYD 0815 (Daily)
TT663 Dep SYD 0845 Arr MEL 1015 (Daily)

TT664 Dep MEL 0735 Arr SYD 0900 (Monday's-Saturday's Only)
TT665 Dep SYD 0930 Arr MEL 1100 (Monday's-Saturday's Only)

TT666 Dep MEL 1010 Arr SYD 1135 (Saturday's Only)
TT667 Dep SYD 1205 Arr MEL 1340 (Saturday's Only)

TT668 Dep MEL 1055 Arr SYD 1220 (Daily)
TT669 Dep SYD 1250 Arr MEL 1420 (Daily)

TT672 Dep MEL 1220 Arr SYD 1345 (Daily)
TT673 Dep SYD 1415 Arr MEL 1545 (Daily)

TT674 Dep MEL 1400 Arr SYD 1525 (Monday-Friday and Sunday's only)
TT675 Dep SYD 1555 Arr MEL 1725 (Monday-Friday and Sunday's only)

TT676 Dep MEL 1500 Arr SYD 1625 (Sunday's Only)
TT677Dep SYD 1655 Arr MEL 1825 (Sunday's Only)

TT678 Dep MEL 1520 Arr SYD 1645 (Saturday's only)
TT679 Dep SYD 1715 Arr MEL 1845 (Saturday's only)

TT682 Dep MEL 1535 Arr SYD 1700 (Monday's- Friday's)
TT683 Dep SYD 1730 Arr MEL 1900 (Monday's- Friday's)

TT684 Dep MEL 1630 Arr SYD 1755 (Monday-Friday and Sunday's only)
TT685 Dep SYD 1825 Arr MEL 1955 (Monday-Friday and Sunday's only)

TT686 Dep MEL 1845 Arr SYD 2010 (Monday-Friday and Sunday's only)
TT687 Dep SYD 2040 Arr MEL 2210 (Monday-Friday and Sunday's only)

TT688 Dep MEL 2005 Arr SYD 2130 (Monday-Friday)
TT689 Dep SYD 2200 Arr MEL 2330 (Monday-Friday)

TT688 Dep MEL 1930 Arr SYD 2055 (Saturday's and Sunday's Only)
TT689 Dep SYD 2125 Arr MEL 2225 (Saturday's and Sunday's Only)

TT692 Dep MEL 1520 Arr SYD 1645 (Sunday's only)
TT697 Dep SYD 1715 Arr MEL 1845 (Sunday's only)

Overall:

Monday's-Friday's and Sunday: 9 flights

Saturday's: 7 Flights

[Lukas M]

VH-VNB is to operate this evenings inaugural ADL-SYD-ADL service.