Tiger Airways Australia to set up HQ in Melbourne

Tiger Airways Australia has confirmed that it will establish its headquarters in Melbourne, at the city’s main domestic and international gateway, Tullamarine Airport.

Tiger Airways President and Chief Executive Officer, Tony Davis said, “We went through a thorough and detailed selection process and chose Melbourne, as it presented the best opportunity for the successful launch of Australia’s first truly “Low Fare” Airline.”

“Together with its comprehensive skills base and long aviation heritage, the flexibility offered by Melbourne Airport, Victoria State and the City of Melbourne demonstrated a deep understanding of Tiger’s low fare model. The State, aviation & tourism industries, together with the wider community, rallied together to make Melbourne a compelling choice,” Davis said.

The selection of the base is an important step in establishing a new airline operation in Australia. Providing over 1000 job opportunities the airline has already commenced the tendering maintenance, ground handling, training and catering contracts.

“The Air Operator’s Certificate (AOC) process is on track and we are now talking to a variety of cities about destination opportunities so that we can start planning our route network .We’ve also started talking to a number of cities about the opportunities for locating a second base in Australia.”

The initial year of operations in Australia will see Tiger basing 5 brand new Airbus A320s with a single class configuration of 180 seats. Davis said that the airline expects to carry around two million passengers in its first year.

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