iscoverCASA’s director of aviation safety John McCormick has described the regulator’s decision to ground Tiger Airways as an “extraordinary action” that came due to “concerns about Tiger’s ability to operate safely”. The CASA boss used his monthly emailed newsletter to industry, ‘CASA Briefing’, to explain the decision in his first public comments on the high
Tiger Airways Australia will remain grounded until at least Thursday July 28 after it sought to have a Federal Court directions hearing of CASA’s application to continue its grounding of the airline scheduled for July 22 adjourned. “Tiger Airways Australia and CASA are currently in ongoing discussions regarding the suspension, and see no utility in
Tiger Airways has appointed former Qantas chief pilot Captain Chris Manning to the new role of “safety advisor”, which will see Manning “work directly with new CEO, Tony Davis, to ensure that the airline is applying the highest levels of operational safety management across the company”, the airline says. “Today’s appointment is another step towards
Tiger Airways has made a written commitment to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) concerning the refunding of tickets for its suspended services and how it communicates with affected passengers. “The ACCC decision to accept this commitment from Tiger Airways provides clarity to affected consumers and ensures that they are not left out of
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has published a preliminary report into the June 30 missed approach by a Tiger Airways A320 at Avalon Airport, during which it descended 400ft below the published minimum safe altitude for the area. The aircraft, registration VH-VNC, callsign ‘Go Cat 6207′ was operating a flight from Sydney to Avalon
The Tiger Airways crew of a flight that descended below the minimum safe altitude on approach to Melbourne Airport on June 7 “did not notice” a disparity for that altitude between the paper approach chart they were using and the database in the aircraft’s FMGS (flight management guidance and envelope system), an ATSB preliminary report
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