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Old 31st July 2008, 10:58 PM
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31st July 2008, 20:48 WST

Budget airline Tiger Airways has axed its services to Darwin from Melbourne and Singapore, blaming high fuel and operating costs in Darwin for the decision.

Services to Darwin will be suspended from October 26, Tiger chief operating officer Steve Burns says.

The costs of flying to Darwin were the highest of all the airports the airline served, he said in a statement.

"This is an important point to stress: combined airport and fuel costs in Darwin cost more than any of the 27 airports that the airline serves across Australia and Asia. It is just incompatible for a true low-fare airline to operate to such a high cost destination," he said.

The airline might re-establish services to Darwin "if costs become more reasonable", he said.

Flights booked prior to October 26 will go ahead.

No Australian domestic flights have been booked to Darwin beyond that date.

Tiger will offer a full refund to international passengers booked after October 26, he said.
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Old 5th August 2008, 01:48 PM
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And the winner is ........ ADELAIDE!
2 A319 based there from Jan 2009.
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Old 5th August 2008, 02:07 PM
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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?
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Old 5th August 2008, 02:12 PM
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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?
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Old 5th August 2008, 02:19 PM
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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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Old 5th August 2008, 02:50 PM
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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
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Old 5th August 2008, 03:03 PM
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I wonder if Tiger will seriously consider my suggestion of Port Lincoln and Kangaroo Island




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Old 5th August 2008, 03:11 PM
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I wonder if Tiger will seriously consider my suggestion of Port Lincoln and Kangaroo Island




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Pt Lincoln would be viable but unsure if the airport can handle a A319, know there were size issues with DJ's E-jets getting in there.

REX are very over priced as they have it all to themselves.
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Old 5th August 2008, 03:20 PM
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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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Old 5th August 2008, 06:37 PM
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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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