Tiger Airways to suspend 2 under-performing Australian flights

Operations would be stopped temporarily on November 10 and would resume if demand picks up.

Tiger Airways seems to be hogging the limelight recently and on Tuesday said it will suspend some flights for its Australian division by November this year.

The airline has also been caught red handed for not complying with the rules on reportable incidents for domestic flights in Australia, but Tiger claims that “safety is never compromised.”

Reports from Australia yesterday said the airline would suspend flights between Adelaide and Brisbane and Adelaide and the Gold Coast because the services were under-performing.

Flights would end on Nov 10 and those who have booked on or after that date would be offered a refund.

But the airline was not closing its doors on that route. It could resume flights when demand picks in the same way it opened up the Melbourne-Darwin route recently after suspending it in 2008.

In July, Tiger cut the only direct flights between Adelaide and Hobart. A report said the airline had further restructured operations by shifting some flights into and out of Melbourne to Avalon rather than Tullamarine airport where the airline was based.

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