Tiger announced ADL as second Hub

[Justin L]

Originally Posted by lloyd fox

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.

Hi Lloyd. Yeah I agree with you. I'm not expecting ADL-SYD flights, more likely will be -ASP and -PER in my opinion. But may as well vote if the opportunity is there! With NZ flights being reported for Tiger at some stage in the future, maybe there could be some cheap options out of ADL as well. When the new terminal opened there were rumours of Freedom doing the ADL-CHC route.

[NickN]

Surely Sydney would already be too competitive for Tiger to fit in.

[Justin L]

Originally Posted by NickN

Surely Sydney would already be too competitive for Tiger to fit in.

Most likely I think so. And Tiger have stated that airports such as Sydney don't fit their low-cost model. But, in saying that JQ are cutting one of their two daily SYD-ADL flights and DJ only have 5 daily (some days 6) so there may be some room. ADL-MEL now has four carriers (QF/DJ/JQ/TT) now that JQ will shift ADL-AVV to ADL-MEL.

My SYD vote was purely for personal reasons. I would love to see it but I doubt I will.

[James F]

Maybe an ADL-NTL link may work? NTL-MEL was crowded with DJ and JQ, so they pulled out. But ADL-NTL may be an option for them, especially if they could make a "connection" (collect bags, recheck etc) through to PER. A lot of mining people currently going between NTL and PER via SYD/MEL/BNE etc, would be interested in another option, albeit on a LCC.

cheers
james

[Jason Carruthers]

Originally Posted by James F

A lot of mining people currently going between NTL and PER via SYD/MEL/BNE etc, would be interested in another option, albeit on a LCC.

I doubt miners would be too keen on that idea. If I were a miner I'd take QF/DJ via BNE/MEL anyday rather then buying two separate tickets and rechecking in ADL on TT.



Jason

[Marty H]

Originally Posted by James F

Maybe an ADL-NTL link may work? NTL-MEL was crowded with DJ and JQ, so they pulled out. But ADL-NTL may be an option for them, especially if they could make a "connection" (collect bags, recheck etc) through to PER. A lot of mining people currently going between NTL and PER via SYD/MEL/BNE etc, would be interested in another option, albeit on a LCC.

cheers
james

Unfortunately you wont see TT doing 'connecting' baggage, will increase their costs too much and will remain a point to point carrier.

[Steve Jones]

Tiger have also launched a second daily MEL-PER flight from 1 Nov. Times are slightly nicer, getting into PER at 1900 and turning around at 1930 to be back in Melbourne at 0100.

Apparently they have some $99 fares on sale to celebrate

Mabye the ADL base could take some ADL-MEL-ADL sectors, leaving Melbourne with some extra time to expand more?

Tiger have announced that they are going 6DAILY on MEL-ADL beggining 15th December. Times are now quite flexible and have 29,000 seats for $29.

http://peanuts.aero/low_cost_airline...e+and+Adelaide

[Steve Jones]

The Tiger website showed Adelaide-Canberra and Adelaide-Alice Springs on their announcements banner last night (nothing on frequency or schedules), but it has since been taken down again... Someone jumped the gun?