Tiger Airways to begin Sydney-Coffs Harbour from February 2013

[Stefan Perkas]

Evening all,

Found this article on the Adelaide newspaper 'The Advertiser/Sunday Mail' website. Here is a little piece of it.

Just 14 months after being grounded by the Civil Aviation Safety Authority for posing a serious risk to airline safety, the low-cost carrier revealed it would begin flying between Sydney and Coffs Harbour from February.

The airline will operate up to five flights, with a capacity of 1400 seats, each week on the new route, and from tomorrow charge customers $120 for return tickets - $64 less than the cheapest Virgin airfares and $166 less than Qantas.

The rest can be found at...http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/fur-fl...-1226523349089

[Kain C]

http://www.tigerairways.com/news/TT_...6_20121125.pdf

Bit of a strange route move if you ask me. Not so if Virgin are planning to drop their 738 run and keep the E190?

[JamesL]

[Jakef]

Good for competition, might be a bit more activity around the airport too!

[Jarden S]

Are they getting a new aircraft soon or is this new flight being operated with the existing fleet?

[JamesL]

One due early next year... You can expect aircraft once a quarter with initial aircraft coming from the TR order...