Tiger Airways to fly across Tasman / New Hub Discussion
 

Ref: http://www.nbr.co.nz/home/column_art...Business+Today

This is great news. With Freedom Air ceasing operations at months end this would be a great time for Tiger to come in and claim LCC status transtasman to NZ provincial ports.

Perhaps AirNZ will be forced to rethink its decision to do away with Freedom Air. From what I hear the sentiments for the majority are anti AirNZ for removing this LCC.

Rod

Dont get to exited, this announcement is a LONG way away, we might not know for about 1year+, as A319 are for australia, and i think that we would most likely see Tiger do a direct to Wellington, Auckland

I would argue the merits of AKL as a port for Tiger. Competition there from Australia is okay. With airlines and code sharing AKL is serviced by Qantas, Lan Chile, Emirates, Air NZ, Pacific Blue, American Airlines, United Airlines, British Airways and Air China off the top of my head.

WLG has only QF and NZ to my knowledge. So perhaps this is an option for Tiger. But I am still willing to bet Tiger will be looking at the provincial ports with the departure of Freedom who were well utilised. Tiger would do quite well here.

Palmerston North, Hamilton, Dunedin, Christchurch and Wellington would be my picks.

Rod

I would have to agree with you there Rod with you picks of the smaller ports. I have to fly back at Christmas to NZ and was originally looking at direct BNE-DUD but now Air New Zealand :mad: is doing it the fares have increased to nearly $200 more than what you were able to do it last year. Bring on the competition:), I am sure New Zealanders as a whole even in the smaller ports would encourage it, but would an Australians worst nightmare (more Kiwis):).

Cheers

Michael

Would Tiger use Melb's International Main terminal, or will they add a few sheds onto T4???:confused::confused::confused:

-tw

International flights go through the international terminal no matter who the carrier is.

Unless Tiger plan on creating a brand new subsidiary or sell half of Tiger Australia. Isn't Tiger Australia unable to fly internationally unless the airline is owned by at least 51% by local interests?




Jason

Mick,

I think what Lukas is trying to get at is that international airlines that fly to / in Australia are exempt from being majority Australian owned if they have intentions of flying across the ditch...

Eg; Similar to what EK, LA and AR do at the moment.

:confused:

Exacty what Grant Said! So TT can fly over there when they want to, subject to approval of course:p

There are rumours floating around that TT are looking closely at taking up ex US skybus A319's to domestic ops here in Australia....

As I said its a rumour after keeping my ears to the ground.......

We were told earlier in the year that The A319's wouldn't be here till the end of the year, so mabye they have bought some of Skybus's A319's. Hope so!

Leased..........

Righteo:p
If so, would Skybus's seats be better than TT's current ones?

Rumour from PPRUNE that the new "hub" will be announced with new "revised" Summer/Autumn Schedules across the whole Australian Tiger Network

I doubt Tiger would want to take on ex Skybus CFM powered A319's with their IAE A320's.




Jason

Why not? The maintenance is outsourced anyhow.... Okay - put it this way when you screaming for capacity i.e TT would you bite the bullet and take several A319's [different to A320's ENGINE's]

As long as the numbers are sufficent to warrent the operation of the aircraft [20+] then it will be okay :rolleyes:

For anyone thats Interested TT have bumped up their Credit Card Surcharge by $5, so its now "per person, per sector"

They also got 80% for their on-time performance for April

lol and the charges keep on coming:p

Obviously Rhys you never travelled before deregulation when you paid 5-10 times this amount on half the salary of today.

The fares today are a dream.

$700 return in 00 PER-BNE that was for a child's fare!!!!!!



And with those prices, suprised AN didnt make more money.....

-Tiger

Sorry I couldn't be more helpful ;)

Somehow I just can't see YWOL being on their preferred choice list...

;)

On the tiger front..

"FORMER Macquarie Bank executive Shelly Roberts was today appointed to run the Australian offshoot of Singapore based Tiger Airways.
Ms Roberts, who was asset director at Macquarie Airports and held a Sydney Airport Corporation board seat, will be managing director Tiger Australia.
She replaces Chris Ward, who will move to Incheon Tiger Airways, the airline group's new South Korean business"
news.com.au

Shelly was a former easyjet executive also