It remains to be seen if Virgin will return its Tiger brand. They said they would, and was fairly defensive when questioned, but things have deteriorated further since then, and it’s more overheads gone if they are going down the route of a more basic 2008 level of 50 73s and 4 777.
Tiger had 17-18 aircraft recently. That’s a lot of capacity given to Jetstar when the Dom market bounces back in 2021.
JQ also have a monopoly in many markets. Cairns, Gold Coast. These flights largely are filled with Chinese tourists. And it appears these travelers will be back again more so before our own domestic local traffic.
They operate 6 flights a day A321 Melbourne to Cairns between May to September. Tiger had 1. Virgin and have one. These flights are full. They also have 15 flights a day Melbourne to Sydney A321. On some days they carry more passengers than Virgin. It’s the price sensitive corporate traffic which is growing and even more so now.