Having not posted for a while and looking at the posts - back into the frey!
IMHO Tiger have now been going long enough, and slowly expanding in response to the economic reality (ayone out there honestly want to tell me, 18 months ago, they could see the QF group cutting services as they have and talking about..gulp..pilot redundencies?? Anyone??) Hmmm
to suggest there is no reason they are not here to stay.
So at the same time Tiger are NOT expanding as quickly due to the economic realities (whilst QF are heading in the same direction by reducing services) but QF is ok and Tiger have stuffed it up??
Anyone want to say QF handle "recovery" any better than any other airline please refer to Perth this am, you mean no-one had the forsight to see yet ANOTHER Perth f**kup, you mean there were no spare aircraft/crews in non curfew airports (SY is NOT the centre of the universe to anyone in management who has any concept of "big picture") to keep things moving?? QF no longer have reserve crews??
(In fairness the report of the pax who spent $28,000 to take the family to Buller - who in their right mind would spend that money and not guarentee better snow at Thredbo or similar; Perth ****** or Perth ****** travel consultant-discuss!)
Sorry but unusually I appear to have digressed.
Tiger have some great people flying for them, their CP is one I would personally fly to the end of the earth with (some other management types from the past I would prefer not to walk to the end of the termainal with, maybe just me??)
Management and pilots will NEVER meld - just think dysfunctional families syndrome - just ask pornstar pilots who have been transferred/demoted/promised to be CP of the whole universe etc etc...and sadly these promises may not have actually been followed through by pornstar management; strange , that!
Tiger have established - and now they will grow...IMHO
Cheers all
galdian