Originally Posted by
neville_nobody
And crewed by whom and on what AOC? Good luck getting CASA to allow a new type flown by noone with type experience. I highly doubt that anyone from Jetstar or QF are going to resign from there to help a start up operator.
To get that to work you would have to import labour, probably another bunch of expats, whilst all the redundant Virgin Pilots are in the dole queue which isn't a good look politically. Once you have some operational experience, then CASA might let you expand and hire non rated pilots.
The only 'quick' solution operationally will be with a 737NG, anything else will take years.
Indigo, ideally, will want Tiger. And they will want that in a market without Virgin, that gives them large upside. They would only obviously buy it, if Virgin collapses, and at that time or near to. The market will view this positively, as someone is coming in to save some jobs. Virgin goes, but Tiger stays, and states they will grow bigger, is better than both going under. The tourism market is not as doomed as previous thought. ‘Tiger Airways Founder saves the Pussycat’ sort of pull.
They would buy the Tiger AOC and slots of the Administrators. They don’t need anything else, Tiger is largely a leased and contracted business. Out of everyone sitting on ‘the list’ to buy Virgin, they are the only one who would go down this path of pursuing the LCC.
The A320 is still on the Tiger AOC. They will bring in their own leased A320s. They have 400+ on order. NEO AOC change is minimal.
The previous Tiger Airbus rated Pilots are available. They don’t need to import Frontier Pilots in on reduced terms. 99% of Tiger Airbus Pilots will sign a deal tomorrow to join.
It was Indigo’s call to start Tiger in 2007. They have had dialogue with the regulator here previously.