Tiger Airways in India - Airliners-India

B772 · Member

Tiger Airways in India

Aseem · Member

B772 wrote:

When will Tiger Airways begin their India operations? They were supposed to begin flights from Singapore to Kolkata early this year ??

last heard, they had dropped the idea.

B772 · Member

Dropped the idea of flying to India. Why on earth would that be ?

Aseem · Member

B772 wrote:

Dropped the idea of flying to India. Why on earth would that be ?

from my vague memory I can recall two reasons

Their internal problem

Wrong choice of destination e.g. CCU

Please correct me if I am wrong.

rgds

VT-ASJ

Nimish · Member

Aseem - you're confusing Tiger with Jetstar Asia (now Jetstar). Jetstart started and then stopped to CCU, they're still fying to BLR though. Tiger is a different entity that has expressed the intent to fly to India, but I'm not sure when they'll actually start.

Aseem · Member

Nimish wrote:

Aseem - you're confusing Tiger with Jetstar Asia (now Jetstar). Jetstart started and then stopped to CCU, they're still fying to BLR though. Tiger is a different entity that has expressed the intent to fly to India, but I'm not sure when they'll actually start.

Hi Nimish,

thanks for the correction..I sure got confused.

rgds

VT-ASJ

JumboJet · Member

B772 wrote:

When will Tiger Airways begin their India operations? They were supposed to begin flights from Singapore to Kolkata early this year ??

Tigers aka tigris tigris are going to be extint soon, and soon will Tiger Airways begin

karatecatman · Member

Tigris tigris is a whiptail (lizard)

Panthera tigris is the the actual tiger (animal).

-- Edited by karatecatman at 13:53, 2006-08-11

-- Edited by karatecatman at 13:53, 2006-08-11

B772 · Member

Not sure how long Jetstar Asia will continue flying to BLR. Read somewhere that their loads to the garden city are a miserable 40%. They stopped CCU despite averaging 60-65% load factor. I think CCU needs another carrier to give competion to SQ on the SIN sector.

the_380 · Member

Jetstar is still new as compared to SQ now they are even comin up with leased A330s temporarily till they are replaced by the 787s lets see if they can make a good breakeven in India or will they break-even

Nimish · Member

B772 wrote:

Not sure how long Jetstar Asia will continue flying to BLR. Read somewhere that their loads to the garden city are a miserable 40%. They stopped CCU despite averaging 60-65% load factor. I think CCU needs another carrier to give competion to SQ on the SIN sector.

I can vouch for their loads being abysmally low on BLR-SIN. They had to change their policy on "provide point to point flights only" to increase loads on the BLR sector through connections. The funny thing is that SQ still goes full on most days on this sector, despite being more expensive. I think most people rely on their travel agent for intl travel, and 3K (Jetstar Asia) is probably not even on the GDS systems.