Tiger adds BNE base and new routes

[MarkR]

Tiger today announced it will be setting up its third base in Brisbane, along with a swag of new routes:

SYD ADL eff 11 March
BNE ADL eff 11 March
BNE CNS eff 15 April
BNE DRW eff 15 April

[Rowan McKeever]

Comes alongside retiming the VA service BNE/DRW/BNE which becomes a daytime service from April next year.

[Brad Myer]

Is it true the new BNE-ADL and BNE-CNS are replacing existing VA services?

[Brandon Giacomin]

BNE-ADL eff March 11
TT313 BNE 1550 ADL 1910 A320 x6
TT318 ADL 2030 BNE 2220 A320 x6

BNE-CNS eff April 15
TT486 BNE 1220 CNS 1445 A320 D
TT491 CNS 1515 BNE 1720 A320 D

BNE-DRW eff April 15
TT652 BNE 2045 DRW 0025+1 A320 D
TT655 DRW 0100 BNE 0510 A320 D

[Dave Parer]

Is it true the new BNE-ADL and BNE-CNS are replacing existing VA services?

It could very well be. I notice that Virgin BNE-CNS flights go from six per day to five per day around mid April 2014

[Rowan McKeever]

It could very well be. I notice that Virgin BNE-CNS flights go from six per day to five per day around mid April 2014

The TT DRW definitely does replace the existing VA which now moves to daytime ops, so double daily for the group with TT taking the leisure-focused redeye.

[Jarden S]

I wonder if they will return to CBR and LST?

[lloyd fox]

From the availability screen so far BNE-CNS is the only reduction of 1 flight a day by VA.Also there are more BNE-SYD and BNE-MEL flights also commencing.

[Ryan K]

I wonder if they will return to CBR and LST?

I've wondered the same. LST handles over 1.2 million passengers per year now and is showing pretty good growth - for JQ and QF at least. VA seem to have switched a lot of their 738 services in favour of E190's though.

[JamesL]

CBR is highly unlikely due the corporate market, something QF won't let JQ do.