JohnMcGhie -
I felt sorry for the poor sods trundling onto a Tiger flight in Cairns for a non-stop to Perth. But Sydney to Melbourne, why not?
How many years ago was that? The only airline now flying non-stop CNS-PER or PER-CNS is JQ. I flew JQ PER-CNS 6 weeks ago and there's little difference between JQ and TigerAir. I also flew TigerAir CNS-BNE 2 weeks later, and the experience was little different to JQ.
Well, I thought it was "last year", but I see now it was nearly two year's ago. And yes, there's a reason I was not on JQ either :-)
I used to go to Sydney on the dear old COMFORTABLE 767's...