Is Tiger inept or conscientiously tricky in trying to get passengers to forfeit a cheap fare and buy a more costly arrangement?
This is an email sent to a reader by his daughter about her friend Hannah’s experience with Tiger in Adelaide yesterday. Our reader has also complained about Tiger here in the past.
Hi Daddy,
Here [...]
Tag Archives: low cost carriers
Angry Flyers Lounge-Tiger loses them young
November 19, 2009 – 4:08 pm
Angry Flyers Lounge-More about how Jetstar is there to punish you for not flying Qantas
July 28, 2009 – 9:07 am
Message from an Angry Flyer.
This is a copy of a letter I have just written to Jetstar. I would be
interesting to get some answers out of it. It is the first time I have
ever written a complaint to anyone. It would be interesting to know how
much the airlines make out of their customers with things [...]
Angry Flyers Lounge-The AirAsia X files by an ex customer
July 9, 2009 – 4:52 pm
AirAsia flight D72723 4/6/09
I booked a flight from MEL to KUL which would get me to Kuala Lumpur in suitable time to on travel to Shenzhen.
I started the day @ 4.30 am in St Helens Tasmania. I had to catch the only bus for the day @ 8.30. I travelled to LST [...]
Angry Flyers Lounge-Jetstar’s New Zealand offensive
July 1, 2009 – 5:48 pm
Jetstar’s entry into the NZ domestic market has so far been three weeks of picking fights with its customers.
All the carrier has to do now to cap it off is to affix murals showing the underarm bowling incident to the cabin bulkheads.
In the most recent reaction to the ill-will it has generated, Jetstar is proposing [...]
AirAsia X and Jetstar and the contest between their plastic fantasic airliners
June 17, 2009 – 7:54 pm
The AirAsia X order for 10 Airbus A350-900s plus 5 options announced at the Paris Air Show sets up an interesting contest with Jetstar, which is supposed to get the first 10 or 15 Boeing 787-8s in the currently deferred Qantas group order for 65 of the Dreamliners.
Each type is the competing Airbus or Boeing [...]
Jetstar lets slip another ‘ace’ in the coming brawl with Tiger
June 15, 2009 – 12:33 pm
Jetstar this morning announced the transfer of one of its international routes, Perth-Jakarta-Singapore, to Jetstar Asia.
Actually that’s not what it highlighted in a concurrent announcement that its Perth-Bali service would rise from four times weekly to daily from 13 August, but it is the bit that will be noticed among Qantas employees and in [...]
Tiger makes Adelaide the second spoke in a Sydney hub
May 7, 2009 – 5:45 am
Tiger Airways is adding a Sydney-Adelaide daily from 31 July, four weeks after it is due to start Melbourne-Sydney flights.
Much more is expected to be added soon after as the Singapore Airlines directed low cost carrier seeks a Sydney solution to its medium term commitment to dozens of Airbus A320 which it is obliged to [...]
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