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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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