Monur they have an Adelaide base.

I have it on good authority that a Tiger aircraft from Melbourne is stranded in Alice Springs with a fuel problem of some sort ( I am led to believe it is something to do with a fuel monitoring pump or simular).
I am also led to believe Tiger put up the outbound passengers in hotels overnight. If this is true, bravo Tiger, as many LCC's won't and it is the passengers bad luck if the aircraft don't go on the day it is supposed to.

Mr Hat - thank you very much; I am definitely interested in Tiger although whether Tiger would be interested in a 59 year old A320 experienced DEC is another matter....

Anyone have a view?

Monur, I can't see why they wouldn't be. There are some good people in the pilot world working for tiger.

Good luck.

Tiger Aus has just announced a 7th A320 today to arrive in October to join their Melbourne base for the demand on the MEL-SYD route.
How cool:ok:

This is the famous Fifth A320 for Melbourne that was due 1.5 years ago....

If she was serious she would have stayed committed to the TWO A320's that were meant to arrive later this year, now they only want one....but then again Shelley Roberts and the word committed have never gone together.

The folks at the reins of Tiger are nothing but a bunch of sheep. I can see great plans ahead:suspect:

Skybus Why are you so Critical and Negative!!!!!!! What do you know about running an Airline !!

Pedota really is having a big laugh at the expense of most of you!

And those that he mentions really haven't "got it" yet!

Have a look at the definition of "irony"! :ok:

I hear there are more Sing Tiger pilots transferring to Oz over the next few months....

b.

Thanks P_B,

3,000 hours pic.

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 :suspect: 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?? :ugh:

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

Stuck in Alice
 

Mostly - your good authority was spot on!

Flight was delayed for about 28 hours but this turned out to be one of the best journey's I have ever been on - the flight crew were out of this world - truly truly awesome!

Everyone was looked after throughout - none of that having to sleep on airport benches, plenty of refreshments and lots of information - a real tribute to Tiger.

Hi Shelley long time no hear:ok: is it really true you bring the xtra planes or are you just telling people **** again.:eek: really the way to say you stuffed up with the perth flight is to just say it. not look at what qantas did they actual went to perth and only upset 168 on the return:D by the way whats happened to our OTP or that like your managment rating with the staff, anymore letters to staff saying the probloem is them:{, as for CP you should follow his lead, he knows what the hell is going on unlike you:8 its the best way to improve staff is you leave.:D:D

62 years of age Pussypower and that's the best you can do?

galdian. What bull****.

How many times do you quote "Economic Downturn benefiting our business", "people are looking for cheaper alternatives"..never will forget the one "People are parking porcches outside T4":ugh:, yet pax numbers are miserable, especially ex Adelaide. So what happens when the Government $$ runs out...just pull another Jetstar and bail out on SA?

Well they handle it better than you do.

319your misconception - I don't work for Tiger, I'm just an outsider looking at what's going on - and I still reckon they've establishd enough to exist and grow.You disagree - traumatic though it is I'll learn to live with it. BTW I fully agree about one thing - does seem the big boss is taking her time to understand the airline game and occasionally resorts to thinking tasers are a good way to motivate morale. I would tend to disagree!

CAN YOU SMELL IT

From November Tiger are planning almost 200 services a week from their Adelaide and Melbourne bases to Sydney.

Big time catpiss.
Smells like the history of one of their co-owners.
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I reckon I could fit in alright at Tiger. Sounds like a very familar scenario!

Trimwheel, I regret to inform you but what you have written is somewhat far from the truth, there is no denying that Tiger has gone through a learning curve but from what I know from those inside, alot of the issues of a start up airline have been ironed out, the place is expanding, new aircraft are arriving, and network is growing, your comments regarding inexperienced pilots flying together is completely untrue also is your comment regarding cabin crew screening, yes everyone works hard but that is airlines world-wide, the day of the legacy carrier is over and no airlines can afford less than to utilse their workforce within the safe and legal boundaries. The Dispatch staff are on a structured shift pattern, which, again as with all other Distapch/Operations departments WORLDWIDE, would ask on occasion to work an extra shift here and there, with consumate renumeration. Please get your facts right prior to launching into your complete diatribe....what happened did they reject your resume or something........

kowlaski, you know nothing...end of story.

I think they also rejected Skybus 319 Resume:}

You've gotta wonder what Trimwheel's motivation is in posting dribble like that... :yuk: Sounds like a case of sour grapes to me.

Historically, there may have been an element of truth to some of those points, but many of the other claims are way off the mark. :=

Tiger is getting bigger by the day, and things are changing for the better. Kowlaski seems much closer to the truth...

Skytoss 319
People like you (note previous posts:ok: put you on the bottom of many wannabee tossers who speak total ****e on this bb) are crap... end off story. Can't wait for another post from you.
That big post is from a person who recently left the Tiger LCC department...sour grapes. Sorry it didn't work for him.

Skybus, I am not a total fountain of knowledge but I know the FACTS.....try learning them before questioning......:bored:

Seems someone doesn't want to come clean....
High Profile Managing Director?? LOL!:mad:

Maybe aircraft No. 8 from December.
And it might be based in ADL.
And possibly a base at Avalon to scrap it out with Jetstar. That should make a few crew happy...:mad:

Are they still flying between Adelaide and Perth???

Can't seem to see any flights :confused:

I dare say when Bus #8 arrives early next year they might have a shot at a daylight service instead of a overnight service which failed..

also wouldn't cease to amaze my if this new A320 sits on the apron at ADL for half the day like the other few did.

Ignorance summed up in one neat quote

You do realise that there is a significant difference between what is legal and what is safe? Just because something is legal does not mean it's safe.

Another forum mentions rumoured ADL-CNS and ADL-PER (daylight) services with the new aircraft with a gap yet to be filled in the schedule. Would they consider either a triangular ADL-OOL-HBA-ADL or a W shape ADL-OOL-HBA-OOL-ADL with a bit of shifting in the existing schedule?

There is just no where near enough HBA-QLD capacity at the moment with DJ only operating the E90 once daily on HBA-BNE, and JQ four weekly on the LST-BNE. At its peak we had DJ and JQ on HBA-BNE with 737/320 (DJ sometimes twice daily too), plus DJ on LST-BNE with the E70 on top of JQ four weekly LST-BNE. Then JQ moved to the "midnight schedule" and it died. At the start of the GFC, DJ cut the LST-BNE, dropped the second HBA-BNE and downgraded the other HBA-BNE from 73H to E90 despite the fact that since the start of the GFC, HBA airport is the 2nd fastest growing in Australia.

And wouldn't crew be happy to see this on their duty sheet. Bloody long day...

Mabye...
ADL-SYD-MCY-SYD-ADL
ADL-OOL-SYD-OOL-ADL

But its arriving in time for dead season, and aint Tiger good at filling seats in Feb:{

Yes, I suppose it would be 11 hours or more! :=

But the triangular ADL-OOL-HBA-ADL would be acceptable. As the ADL-OOL currently departs first thing anyway, they could for example on Mon,Wed,Fri,Sun operate the above triangular service instead of the current ADL-OOL-ADL-HBA-ADL rotation. The new aircraft could then operate the ADL-HBA-OOL-ADL direction. Then, on Tue,Thu,Sat the current aircraft could simply operate ADL-OOL-ADL-ASP-ADL as it does now. Throw in some ADL-PER (daily afternoon operated by new aircraft), ADL-CNS (Tue,Thu,Sat flown by the new aircraft instead of ADL-HBA-OOL-ADL) and you have a full schedule! :ok:

Just reading that you guys are doing 5 sectors a day makes me squirm.

Guess I am getting soft in my old age!

Are you shattered after a day like that or able to front up next day for more of the same?

Tiger have just announced up to 3x daily MEL-BNE flights from March 2010.

ADL-BNE daily from end march confirmed.

New base to be announced shortly, probably more routes too with the next aircraft going to Adelaide, probably ADL/PER daytime?

apparently lots of interviewing / upgrading and lots more to come in 2010 :D

Now third time round its just gotta be OOL

OOL!.... were do I sign? :D

Singapore - Hong Kong route starts Feb next year. :ok:

I believe BNE-ROK-BNE will also operate daily with the aircraft doing ADL-BNE-ADL