AIRCRAFT engineers say Tiger Airways' safety problems won't be easily fixed and the budget airline could be grounded for weeks.
Tiger's domestic flights were on Saturday grounded for a week by the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) because of safety concerns, disrupting the travel plans of thousands of passengers.
Tiger's cheap airfares had created a "race to the bottom'' that was making things tougher on other airlines, said the federal secretary of the Australian Licenced Aircraft Engineers Association (ALAEA), Steve Purvinas.
He said defects on planes should be routinely reported to engineers, but this was difficult at Tiger because they didn't have their own in-house engineers.
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