Tiger Airways to fly across Tasman / New Hub Discussion

[Lukas M]

Originally Posted by Grant Smith

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.

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

[Bruce Bramwell]

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.......

[Lukas M]

expects to take delivery of its two A319s in the next couple of months

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!

[Bruce Bramwell]

Originally Posted by Lukas Mahoney

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..........

[Lukas M]

Originally Posted by Bruce Bramwell

Leased..........

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

[Lukas M]

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

[Jason Carruthers]

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




Jason

[Bruce Bramwell]

Originally Posted by Jason Carruthers

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

[Lukas M]

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

[Rhys Xanthis]

lol and the charges keep on coming