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Tiger Airways (Australia Pty Limited) commenced operating domestic flights in Australia on the 23rd November 2007 from its home base in Melbourne. The airline opened a second base in Sydney in July 2012 and a third base was opened in Brisbane in March 2014.
In October 2012, Virgin Australia Holdings purchased 60% of Tiger Airways Australia from parent company Tiger Airways Holdings.
In July 2013 the airline re-branded from Tiger Airways
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| TIGER AIRWAYS A320-232 VH-VNG (CN 3674) |
to Tigerair
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| TIGERAIR A320-232 VH-XUH (CN 6749) |
and the joint venture between Tiger Airways Holdings and the Virgin Australia Group was launched.
On the 17th October 2014 Virgin Australia purchase the remaining 40% so Tigerair Australia is now a fully owned subsidiary of Virgin Australia Holdings.
March 2016 Tigerair Australia announced new international services from Melbourne, Perth and Adelaide to Bali; Tigerair Australia use three newly reconfigured Boeing 737-800 aircraft which Tigerair obtained from Virgin Australia for these routes.
Tigerair Australia is a low cost carrier which operates 14 A320-232 aircraft domestically to 13 destinations around Australia and 3 B737-8FE to Bali Indonesia .
In July this year Virgin Australia and Tigerair confirmed that the entire A320 fleet will be replaced with Boeing 737-800s by 2019.
Recently Tigerair changed their callsign from GO-CAT to TIGG-OZ
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