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IATA ICAO Callsign TT TGG TIGGOZ

Tiger Airways Australia Pty Ltd, operating as Tigerair Australia, is an Australian low-cost airline. It commenced services on the 23 November 2007 as Tiger Airways Australia. It is a fully owned subsidiary of Virgin Australia Holdings. The airline is based in Melbourne with its main base at Melbourne Airport. The Civil Aviation Safety Authority of Australia (CASA) grounded the airline in 2011; as a result operating bases at Adelaide and Avalon were shut down and it initially only operated out of its Melbourne base after returning to the air some months later.
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

TIGER AIRWAYS A320-232 VH-VNG (CN 3674)

to Tigerair

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.
In July this year Virgin Australia and Tigerair confirmed that the entire A320 fleet will be replaced with Boeing 737-800s by the end of 2019.

TIGERAIR B737-8FE VH-VUD (CN 34015)

Fleet
As of the 28th September 2017 the Tigerair Australia fleet consists of the following aircraft:

Tigerair Australia Fleet

Aircraft	In Service	Passengers	Notes
Airbus A320-232	14	180	All aircraft to be returned to Tigerair (now Scoot) and replaced by Boeing 737-8FE
Boeing 737-8FE	3	180	Work will start in March 2018 to add an additional 6 seats (increasing capacity to 186) on all 737-800 aircraft.
Total	17

Tigerair network spans across 24 domestic routes (25 with the addition of new route Hobart-Gold Coast launching in December this year) around Australia.
Tigerair Australia currently operates over 600 domestic flights per week, with around 100,000 seats per week available.
The airline has flown well over 25 million passengers in Australia since operations commenced in Australia in November 2007.

LEFT: TIGERAIR B737-8FE VH-VUB (CN 34013)

RIGHT:TIGERAIR B737-8FE VH-VOY (CN 33996)