Just saw this on one of the news sites.
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Tiger Airways consumer communications manager Vanessa Regan said the Hobart to Melbourne flight was cancelled when a cabin crew member suddenly fell ill and required emergency medical treatment.
“Unfortunately we do not have a crew base in Hobart and so no replacement was available (and) we need a certain amount of cabin crew to fly each flight by law.”
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After a lifetime in Airlines I will never understand this, I have seen it also at so called full service Airlines, NOT just LCCs.
While I understand there are minimum crew requirements, why on Earth (in this case) couldn't the aircraft operate the flight even with a reduced pax load, even with say only half the number of pax that were booked on it, at least they could have taken pax with connecting flights, compassionate cases, maybe people with kids etc???
NOT having a go at Tiger, as I said I have seen it before sadly at ANother Airline.