Tiger Airways

In addition to recently announced flights to Tiruchirappalli, Tiger Airways will start flying to Trivandrum, India come November this year.

The two multi-million dollar arrangements are for pre-delivery payments (PDP) of six Airbus 320s and the purchase of additional seven.

To serve growing demand, Tiger Airways will double the current frequency of flights to Krabi and Hat Yai in Thailand.

Compared with February 2009, passenger volume almost doubled as Tiger served a total of 437,000 passengers in the previous month.

Tiger Airways plans to improve its call centre services as part of its Customer Task Force introduced in 2009.

The seats on sale to 11 regional destinations from Singapore are only open for booking from 4 to 10 March 2010.

Passenger numbers increased 54% resulting to revenue growth from $107.8 million to $139.5 million.

Airline offers 120,000 seats at zero cents after it reached its twelve millionth passenger.

Inauguration of twice-daily flights on Feb. 1 was slated to welcome the Year of the Tiger.

Tiger Airways has announced that the delivery of its five new planes will be accelerated to early 2011 instead of 2016 as before.

This is the first time the airline will own its own aircraft instead of leasing, which will allow it to drop operating costs and offer even lower airfares.

Tiger Airways today announced the appointment of its Chairman Gerard Ee Hock Kim and three additional Independent Directors to its Board of Directors. Mr. Gerard Ee Hock Kim is an experienced independent director and has a background with auditing firms such as Price Waterhouse and Ernst & Young where he was an audit partner. Mr. Ee was awarded the Public Service Medal (PBM) in 1993, the Public Service Star (BBM) in 2003 and the Meritorious Service Medal (PJG) in 2007. He has been a Fellow certified public accountant of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore since 2005. Mr. Po’ad Bin Shaik Abu Bakar Mattar has been appointed as an Independent Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee. Mr. Mattar was with Deloitte & Touche and its predecessor firms from 1971, holding various positions before becoming a senior partner in 2002. He also sits on other bodies in both the private and public sectors.

Tiger Airways is set to welcome 2010 with an initial public offering to help finance its Airbus A320s purchase.