Tiger Axes DRW
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And the winner is ........ ADELAIDE!
2 A319 based there from Jan 2009. |
I heard today from a grossly unreliable source (An elderly lady in the supermarket who knows someone in a travel agent in fact) that Tiger are pulling out of OOL from October. I am 99.9% she was told that DRW was closing and she got confused or is there something I don't know about?
Now that Tiger have selected ADL as hub #2 no doubt they will move into the former domestic facility. I suppose we could see ADL-CBR ADL-OOL ADL-MKY ADL-CNS? ADL-PER ADL-DRW ADL-ASP ADL-HBA? |
Tiger Airways to make Adelaide its second base
JESSICA HURT, TRAVEL EDITOR August 05, 2008 11:30am SOUTH Australians will be able to access more direct flights after low-cost airline Tiger Airways announced Adelaide would be its second home base. The airline, which is based in Melbourne, will initially base two of its new A319s in Adelaide with corresponding crews and support staff from January. It is still considering which routes to fly to from SA. Full article below: http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/s...19-913,00.html What new routes are likely do you think? ADL-NT/WA routes? Also, I wonder if the talk of reopening the old terminal as a budget terminal will resurface? |
If I was a betting man, in addition to ADL-MEL (ops by MEL based aircraft), I think they will just connect the dots. Thus potential routes are: PER (daily), OOL (daily), CBR (daily), ASP (3x a week), MCY (4 times a week - recently dropped by JQ), and maybe HBA and/or LST a few times a week each. That would probably use the 2 aircraft.
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Tiger are holding a vote on their website asking users where they want them to fly from ADL. You can select two destinations and then where you are from.
I went for SYD and BNE (My family is in ADL and I live in SYD, and have cousins in BNE who would love cheap fares back to ADL). In the "Where are you from" pull-down menu though they didn't have Sydney, so I just put in my hometown of Adelaide. http://www.tigerairways.com/votenow/Index.php |
I wonder if Tiger will seriously consider my suggestion of Port Lincoln and Kangaroo Island :p:D
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REX are very over priced as they have it all to themselves. |
The runway at port lincon appears to be ~1500m mark, well short of the MTOW take off distance of the A319 at ~1950m (from wiki).
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Justin Hi,
Dont hold your breath re their survey on where you would like to fly. When Tiger planned to start Australian services BNE lead this survey with 17% which was more than MEL, but no flights came to our city and also Bne was just pipped at the post to MEL for the initial base however BNE has no flights still. Unfortunately i hold no trust in this survey. Brissie would love Tiger flights and would be a perfect hub with flights to all over Australia and NZ and Pacific Islands. |
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