Tiger Airways Schedules

[Debra Rettie]

Hi,

Can anyone make any sense of Tiger Airways Schedules. I had a look a few weeks ago regarding flights to Melbourne and say for the 11th of October Sydney-Melbourne it was only showing four flights, now its showing more than double that.

[chrisb]

July 20, 2009: TIGER Airways will add flights to Sydney from Melbourne and Adelaide later this year when its seventh aircraft arrives.
The airline said today will double the number of daily flights offered between Melbourne and Sydney from four to nine return flights per day from October 4 and increase frequency on the Adelaide-Sydney route to two return flights per day.

The airline, which still has far fewer flights than its competitors, said it was taking advantage of decisions by other airlines to reduce flights and moves by travellers to save money.


http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/business/story/0,28124,25808084-23349,00.html

[Marty H]

CBR is being canned to accomodate the extra MEL-SYD services,

[Lee G]

This thread may help - look at the bottom post .....
http://www.yssyforum.net/board/showthread.php?t=2870&page=5

[Steve Jones]

There is no confirmation that CBR is canned. In fact Tiger management are (currently) saying the opposite. Then again, still nothing open for booking post early october.

[Steve Jones]

This from Sunday's paper (page 1 - lots must be going on in Canberra!)

Tiger Airways yet to confirm Canberra plans
BY LOUIS ANDREWS

TIGER Airways has denied a delay in revealing flight scheduling signals the death of services to and from Canberra.
No flights from Canberra are listed on the budget airline's website beyond October 3.

The Sunday Canberra Times understands the airline was expected to have uploaded its schedule by the end of May or early June.

Competitors Virgin Blue and Qantas have already unveiled schedules covering flights through to the middle of 2010.

Airline spokeswoman Vanessa Regan denied rumours the Canberra services would be canned after October 3, and said the company was preparing the schedule beyond that date.

She was unable to explain the delay, other than to say a new aircraft was due to join the fleet.

[Bruce Bramwell]

It seems that you cannot book from October onwards the PER - MEL or PER - ADL route?

[Lukas M]

ADL-CBR is finished, as is ADL-PER and I wouldn't hold my breath on MEL-CBR either...

Well what would they expect operating a PER-ADL flight at 2am.

[Bruce Bramwell]

Always popular when I've flown with them

[Jeff Gilbert]

Odd. Every time I have flown on Tiger between CBR and MEL there loads have been full.

[Rhys Xanthis]

Well what would they expect operating a PER-ADL flight at 2am.

Well not that in isolation as such, but when JQ has a flight at the much much better time of 1035, you can see why.

[Steve Jones]

ADL-CBR is their strongest performing route ex ADL so it would be strange indeed...

[Rod Sloan]

Tiger to ditch flights out of Canberra
Matt O'Sullivan
August 10, 2009

TIGER Airways is expected to stop flying out of Canberra as early as October, as it refocuses on taking on Qantas and Virgin Blue on the country's busiest route, between Sydney and Melbourne.

The low-cost airline is not offering flights between Canberra and either Melbourne or Adelaide after early October. Asked about its plans for Canberra, Tiger's managing director Shelley Roberts would only say that it was reviewing its services to and from the capital city.

But industry insiders expect the Singapore Airlines-backed carrier to pull out of Canberra.

Tiger launched up to four services a day between Sydney and Melbourne last month.

The airline has since increased flights to as many as nine a day on the higher-yielding route and also launched daily services between Sydney and Adelaide. Qantas' low-cost subsidiary Jetstar has responded by doubling its services between Sydney and Adelaide.

Macquarie Equities has said that Tiger's increase in the share of the Melbourne-Sydney route to 10 per cent was likely to stifle any near-term recovery in airlines' yields. But other analysts have questioned how long Tiger will accept losses while trying to establish itself on the route.

MATT O'SULLIVAN

Source: http://business.theage.com.au/business/tiger-to-ditch-flights-out-of-canberra-20090809-ee7m.html

[Steve Jones]

CBR-ADL and CBR-MEL flights are now available for booking from end october onwards.

[Justin L]

Any word on ADL-PER for TT? Those flights are still not showing in the booking engine post October. Although a back of the clock flight, at least it utilises the aircraft.

[Lukas M]

Something else needs to give way for ADL-CBR to start.

They must have been negotiating with CBR quite heavily, cause it was gone, and now they want it back...

[Steve Jones]

I believe the rotations are MEL-CBR-ADL-CBR-MEL (on the days the ADL flight operates) , presumably as there is no capacity left in the 2 ADL-based aircraft.

[Justin L]

Does anyone have any information yet regarding TT's ADL-PER services? The flight doesn't seem to be in their schedules since the start of the summer timetable, but the flight is still showing on the route map. Tiger are usually fairly fast at updating their route maps.

With increased MEL-SYD and ADL-SYD services I suspect the plane may be used for those, but as ADL-PER-ADL was a back of the clock service they could have the plane back in ADL from PER in time for its first flight of the day. Was the unfriendly scheduling a factor in its demise, or do they plan to keep the service and still determining its reintroduction?

[Lukas M]

It was the biggest failure of them all, who flies a 2am PER-ADL? Certainly not me... Unless one of the other unpopular routes they fly from Adelaide like Hobart/Canberra is also a deemed a failure, I dont think you will see another striped cat on this route..