Virgin Blue getting big jets, now this. C'mom guys why are you still hanging around in the desert. Things really looking up in the land of Oz.
Tiger Airways gets Australian approval
Friday March 16, 2007
Tiger Airways was given the green light by Australia's Foreign Investment Review Board to proceed with the creation of Tiger Airways Australia
(ATWOnline, Feb. 12).
Tiger said FIRB found that "the creation of Tiger Airways Australia was consistent with the government's foreign investment policy and did not place any specific conditions on the creation of the new airline." TAA now will now work toward securing its AOC.
Tiger CEO Tony Davis said he was "very encouraged by the support received from so many communities across the country," adding that TAA is in the final stages of negotiation with a number of Australian airports for the location of its principal operating base. Brisbane, Melbourne and Adelaide are frontrunners.
Interestingly, TAA was the popular abbreviation for domestic carrier Trans Australia Airlines, which was renamed Australian Airlines and then merged into Qantas ahead of the latter's IPO in 1994.
by Geoffrey Thomas