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Tiger Airways has received initial indications that it will get approval to operate routes into New Zealand as the carrier prepares to announce its second Australia hub. Speaking to
Travel Today at the Australian Pacific Aviation Outlook Summit, Tiger group chief executive Tony Davis said that while the carrier did not currently have approval to operate trans-Tasman routes, he was “confident” of being able to secure rights. “There is a lot of interest among the New Zealand tourist community and the airports. I am confident of being able to convince the governments of the need for more capacity,” he said. Tiger has lobbied the Australian government for rights to fly international routes from Australia, but Davis said themain priority is the opening up of near Asian neighbours such as Indonesia and Malaysia rather than New Zealand, which could be approved bilaterally. Shelley Roberts, managing director of Tiger’s Australianoperations would not be drawn on thelocation of the low cost carrier’s second Australian base, but said an announcement was due imminently. Davis, meanwhile said it was “clearly not Sydney, or else we would have made it here today”. Davis is expected to be at the announcement, which could even be made this week.
-TravelToday
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Where would they fly to Malaysia from Oz in an A320, Cairns???
Finally! any day now we will know the new base seeing Mr Davis is around for now....Any guesses BNE? OOL? CNS? ADL?