It’s a busy week for Tiger Airways Australia as the airline announces four new domestic routes between Melbourne and Sunshine Coast, Sydney and Cairns, Sydney and Alice Springs plus Melbourne and Alice Springs.
It’s a busy week for Tiger Airways Australia as the airline announces four new domestic routes between Melbourne and Sunshine Coast, Sydney and Cairns, Sydney and Alice Springs plus Melbourne and Alice Springs.
Special fares for Tiger’s newest routes will be available on the Tiger Airways website for a limited time from around 9:00 pm AEST today until midnight 12th February 2013 (or until sold out) and are valid for travel through April and May with thousands of fares available on each new route.
Tiger Airways Australia Commercial Director, Carly Brear, says today’s news is exciting for the consumer, local economies and the airline.
“We are confident that a lot of our current and future customers will be very happy that we are bringing Tiger’s low fares to more of Australia,” said Ms. Brear.
“Tiger’s new services to Cairns and Sunshine Coast further increase our presence in Queensland, which is an ever popular state for our customers to visit and also provide additional connectivity for Queensland residents who have been extremely supportive of Tiger’s services to date.
“I’m particularly thrilled to tell the people of Alice Springs that we have listened. We’ve been inundated with requests for Tiger’s low cost flights to serve Central Australia, a community that currently lacks low cost options and critically is so heavily reliant on tourism.
“The people of Alice Springs will be the first to tell you that they won our recent online voting poll calling for Australian’s to vote where Tiger should fly to next and today we are announcing not one but two new routes into Alice from Australia’s two largest capital cities. It really is a case of ‘the people have spoken’ and Tiger has responded!”
This month Tiger Airways Australia will celebrate flying its 10 millionth customer since Australian operations began in November 2007.
In further growth related news for the airline, Tiger Airways is gearing up to commence flying its first NSW intrastate route between Sydney and Coffs Harbour which takes off from 15th February 2013 and will provide a welcome return service four times a week as well as an additional fifth Saturday service from March 2013 onwards.
“Not only does Tiger provide consistently great value fares and healthy competition to the market, we remain committed to customer satisfaction and will continue to respond to the needs of our customers,” said Ms. Brear. “The airline’s overall customer satisfaction has improved markedly (Roy Morgan domestic airline satisfaction independent research survey, July – September 2012) and our customers, quite rightly, are our number one priority at all times.”
Tiger Airways recently introduced a new call centre which commenced on 1st February 2013 in a further bid to ensure the highest levels of customer satisfaction.
Key facts:
- Four weekly return services between Melbourne and Sunshine Coast commence from 27th March 2013 and are now on sale (thousands of sale fares are available now for travel in April and May 2013) Services on this route increase to daily return services (seven days a week) from June 2013.
- Flights depart Melbourne Airport (Tullamarine) at 9:05 am, arrive in Sunshine Coast at 11:20 am and return from Sunshine Coast at 11:50 am to arrive in Melbourne at 2:15 pm.
- Four weekly services between Sydney and Cairns commence from 4th April 2013 and are now on sale (thousands of sale fares are available now for travel in April and May). Services between Sydney and Cairns increase to one daily return service (seven days a week) from June 2013.
- Flights on the new Sydney – Cairns route depart Sydney at 6:45am to arrive into Cairns at 9:50 am, returning from Cairns at 10:20am to arrive back in Sydney at 1:15 pm.
- Four weekly return services (Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays) between Melbourne and Alice Springs commence from 9th April 2013 and are now on sale (thousands of sale fares are available now on this route for travel in April and May 2013).
- Flights depart Melbourne at 9:00 am and return from Alice Springs at 12:20 pm, arriving back into Melbourne at 14:55 pm.
- Four weekly return services (Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays) between Sydney and Alice Springs commence from 9th April 2013 and are on sale now (thousands of sale fares are available now on this route for travel in April and May 2013).
- Flights depart Sydney at 6:40 am to arrive at Alice Springs at 10:00 am, returning from Alice Springs at 10:30 am to arrive back in Melbourne at 1.15 pm.
- These new services will provide over 5,000 additional visitor seats weekly through Alice Springs airport and up to 2,520 additional visitor seats weekly through Cairns and Sunshine Coast airports.
- Tiger Airways Australia currently employs more than 350 people in various roles including cabin crew, pilots, management and through maintenance and ground handling partnerships.
- Around 20 new jobs will be created at Alice Springs Airport in ground handling roles to facilitate the new services.
- Tiger Airways Australia currently has 11 A320 aircraft deployed in Australia.
- Tiger Airways currently has 16 popular domestic routes on sale (including the new routes announced).
- Further developments from Tiger Airways Australia to be announced in due course.
Vicky is the co-founder of TravelDailyNews Media Network where she is the Editor-in Chief. She is also responsible for the daily operation and the financial policy. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Tourism Business Administration from the Technical University of Athens and a Master in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Wales. She has many years of both academic and industrial experience within the travel industry. She has written/edited numerous articles in various tourism magazines.
