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: Singapore Airlines
Angry Flyers Lounge-Tiger loses them young
November 19, 2009 – 4:08 pm
The Pulse, Singapore Airlines finds one
November 17, 2009 – 10:40 am
Hard on the heels of its loss in the first six months of its financial year, Singapore Airlines finds signs of life in the October operating statistics released this morning.
It’s sober reading for those who depend on air transport, with passenger numbers substantially below the levels of a year earlier. However Singapore Airlines has in [...]
Singapore Airlines reports smaller losses and signs of recovery
November 11, 2009 – 11:26 am
If airlines are the canaries in the mine shaft when it comes to the economic environment, then Singapore Airlines is more firmly gripping its perch but not yet in song.
It has just reported a quarterly loss of $SIN 159 million, compared to $SIN307 million in the previous first quarter of its financial year which ends [...]
Tiger v Cityflyer comes into sharper focus
October 30, 2009 – 5:30 pm
Tiger’s second announcement of new Sydney flights in two days underlines the pressure the Singapore Airlines controlled low fare airline is applying to the high fare Qantas Cityflyer operation.
Yes. Cityflyer. Not low fare Jetstar, nor middle market Virgin Blue, but high fare Qantas, and especially its inter capital Cityflyers.
Today Tiger’s touch up is the [...]
Singapore Airlines begins trench warfare in air fares
October 26, 2009 – 5:54 am
Singapore Airlines has decided to give money back to its customers flying on its lowest fares to London and its European destinations next year if it comes out with even cheaper offers before they fly.
This is going to have ‘consequences.’
Airlines hate giving cash back to customers. They prefer to concoct $50-$100 rebooking fees out [...]
No sign of recovery for Singapore Airlines
October 16, 2009 – 12:29 pm
Singapore Airlines has not replicated the early signs of recovery seen in the comparable Cathay Pacific statistics in its operating results for September.
The airline boarded 10% fewer passengers in September than a year earlier (compared to a fall of only 2% for Cathay Pacific), and flew 7.9% less measured by revenue passenger kilometres. Singapore [...]
It’s time for Singapore Airlines to deal as directed with serious allegations of illegal price fixing in Australia
October 2, 2009 – 4:07 pm
Singapore Airlines has lost a critical legal challenge to the powers of the ACCC to investigate allegations that it participated in cartel like behaviour in fixing certain air freight surcharges in concert with other carriers including Qantas.
A lay definition of cartel like behaviour is to conspire with other enterprises to rob customers of the [...]
Would you like extra bandwidth with your seat?
September 25, 2009 – 10:05 am
It’s one thing to pay airlines extra to choose your seat, and extra to check a bag, and extra for more legroom in the over-wing exit rows, but what about a much faster internet connection?
This could be what Brett Godfrey, Virgin Blue CEO had in mind, when he mentioned the ‘airline of the future’ project [...]
Qantas versus itself and Singapore Airlines
August 20, 2009 – 10:15 am
The seriousness with which Qantas regards the Singapore Airlines controlled Tiger Airways expansion in Australia was illustrated for two hours this morning with a 10,000 seat one-way $19 giveaway on the Sydney-Melbourne route.
The seats on Jetstar were offered by email at short notice to those enrolled on its Jetmail direct marketing data base.
It is seldom [...]
V Australia reminds Qantas how wrong it was about the 777
August 17, 2009 – 4:32 pm
Virgin Blue has really shown how it can punish Qantas for its absurd resistance to acquiring Boeing 777s.
The announced ‘phase two’ expansion of its V Australia fleet which rises to only four of these jets by December is going to be an enormous headache for Qantas.
And especially considering it holds orders or options for up [...]
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