Category: Tigerair Australia

Tiger Airways will re-start services to Hobart from November 1 as the budget carrier continues to rebuild its network after last year’s grounding. Tiger said it would launch two daily return services from its Melbourne hub to Tasmania, with flights leaving Melbourne at 7am and 6pm and returning from Hobart at 8:45am and 7:45pm. Tickets

Tiger Airways will establish a second base at Sydney Airport after CASA approved the carrier’s plan to increase flights to pre-grounding levels over the next six months. The plan will allow Tiger to use all 10 of its aircraft for the first time since its operations were shut down for six weeks over safety concerns

Tiger Airways has announced plans to resume flights to Cairns pending approval by safety regulators. The budget carrier was forced to sharply curtail operations following a six week suspension over safety concerns last year and remains under a CASA imposed cap on daily flights. It has focused on core routes out of its Melbourne hub

Tiger Airways will add more than 380,000 additional seats in the coming months as the budget carrier looks to find its footing after a disastrous 2011. The extra capacity will be spread over Tiger’s existing network of four routes based out of its Melbourne Airport hub. Melbourne-Sydney will see three additional return flights for a