Tiger B738s

[Greg Hyde]

From VASource

7th February 2016 - VH-VOR Returns from Townsville Maintenance in tigerair Colours.
Boeing 737-8FE VH-VOR, which has been under maintenance at Townsville since 30th January, positioned Townsville - Melbourne this morning as VA9930. The aircraft has been repainted into tigerair livery.

[Yusef D]

VAI has a lot of aircraft out of service for a long time, and Tigerair have a lot of cabin crew not working productively for a long time all for the addition of 4 seats to these 737s.

Tigerair cabin crew who will fly 737 have long ceased flying A320 to observe and train as supernumerary crew on VA 737s, and we're still a month and half from launch.

[MarkR]

There is a lot more to it than just 4 extra seats, YPM will jump for the Bali routes while ASKs will go up on the more profitable redeployed aircraft routes. Tiger reported $13.9M EBIT this morning, a significant turnaround in performance.

[Stefan Perkas]

Evening all,

Sorry to drag this topic back up.

VH-VUD ferried up to Townsville on Saturday afternoon as 'VA9901'. Could this be another one to be repainted into Tiger colours?

[Yusef D]

makes sense, also one of the ex- Pacific Blue aircraft, like VUB, VOY, VOR.

[Greg Hyde]

Announced a few weeks ago

http://yssyforum.net/board/showthrea...=10927&page=13

[BaileyF]

Originally Posted by Stefan Perkas

Evening all,

Sorry to drag this topic back up.

VH-VUD ferried up to Townsville on Saturday afternoon as 'VA9901'. Could this be another one to be repainted into Tiger colours?

Just letting you know that VH-VUD was ferried TSV-MEL as VOZ9902 this morning after being repainted into the Tiger colours. As far as I am aware, this aircraft will be used for training until December when it will then be entered into service (Domestic).

[Jarod G]

When will Tigerair start using 737's for domestic services

According to this...December

http://australianaviation.com.au/201...t-in-december/

[Yusef D]

I just love how Virgin crew and staff learn what's going on from pages like these. The E Jets are going... more 737 flying to cover CBR/ADL/HVB/AYQ. A330 going international... more 737 flying to cover transcon... but we're also losing 737s..???