Tiger Airways Australia is celebrating new services between Sydney and Cairns commencing from today. The airline’s inaugural service from Sydney will touch down at Cairns Airport at around 9am local time.
Tiger Airways has already indicated strong consumer support for the popular destination by announcing the current four-weekly return services between Sydney and Cairns will increase to seven (or one daily return service) by June 2013, delivering up to 2520 additional visitor seats through Cairns Airport weekly.
Tiger Airways Head of Communications, Vanessa Regan says “Tiger’s new services to Cairns further increase Tiger’s presence in Queensland; an ever popular state for our customers to visit, particularly as we head into the winter season when many Sydneysiders and Victorians are seeking an affordable escape to sunny Queensland. However we’re also providing fantastic low fare options for Cairns residents to travel to Australia’s largest cities – just in time for the winter football season.”
Ms Regan continues “Early sales on our new route have been pleasing and we expect the momentum to continue now that the route is operating. As an airline that evolves based on customer demand, we’re confident our new services between Sydney and Cairns will prove successful.”
Cairns Airport GM Aeronautical Development & Marketing, Janice Antonson, says “Cairns Airport welcomes the new Tiger service from Sydney, following the success of their Melbourne service which recommenced last April. Sydney to Cairns has always been a popular route and the addition of two and a half thousand seats during the peak season will provide a great to boost passenger numbers.”
Tourism Tropical North Queensland Chief Executive Officer Rob Giason says the tourism industry is really excited about Tiger providing additional capacity from Sydney and giving visitors to Cairns another option. “Sydney is a market we need to stimulate and one of the key markets we are focusing on to create greater visitation. Increasing airline capacity is the only way the Cairns region can increase visitors from markets like Sydney because people fly rather than drive those distances.”
In more growth related news for the airline, Tiger Airways has recently celebrated its 10 millionth domestic passenger milestone and launched new services between Sydney and Coffs Harbour (15 February 2013), between Melbourne and Sunshine Coast (27 March 2013) and is next week launching two new services to Alice Springs from both Sydney and Melbourne, (commencing from 09 April 2013).
Key facts:
- Four weekly services between Sydney and Cairns commence from 4th April 2013 and are today on sale from $69.95* each way. (Flights are currently scheduled on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays).
- Services between Sydney and Cairns increase to one daily return service (seven days a week) from June 2013, providing up to 2520 additional visitor seats weekly through Cairns Airport.
- Flights on the new Sydney – Cairns route depart Sydney at around 7am to arrive into Cairns at 10:05am, returning from Cairns at 10:35am to arrive back in Sydney early in the afternoon.
- Tiger Airways Australia currently employs more than 350 people in various roles including cabin crew, pilots, management and through maintenance and ground handling partnerships.
- Tiger Airways Australia currently has 11 A320 aircraft deployed in Australia.
- Tiger Airways currently has 12 destinations and 16 popular domestic routes on sale.
- Further developments from Tiger Airways Australia to be announced in due course.
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