Tiger Airways to increase Singapore fleet from 10 to 14 aircraft by end 2010

This increase will fuel the airline’s continued growth as air travel in Asia-Pacific continues its robust recovery, and as Tiger continues to attract more passengers.

Rosalynn Tay, Managing Director of Tiger Airways Singapore, said, “Signs from the industry and our own operations have been very encouraging, with growing passenger numbers at both Tiger Airways and Changi Airport. We have therefore decided to further expand our fleet, to ride the strong recovery of aviation in Asia-Pacific as well as meet the growing demand for our low, low fares.

“With a bigger fleet, we can increase frequencies and introduce new routes and destinations. At the same time, economies of scale will result in greater operational efficiency and lower costs. For our customers, all these mean more opportunities to travel at lower fares.

“We have been seeing strong demand on all our routes including the new ones. Since we started Hong Kong in February, we’ve led the rapid reduction of industry fares with our lowest possible fares. This route is so popular that we are now flying triple daily, only a few months after the inaugural flight. We are now replicating the low-fare revolution in Trichy and Trivandrum, which are already selling very well ahead of the inaugural flights in November. We look forward to spreading our low-fare revolution to more parts of Asia, especially the most populous places like Greater China and India.

“In line with this fleet expansion, we will be hiring more pilots and cabin crew to join our team of tigers. Strong, passionate and effective, they have helped Tiger grow successfully from just a newborn cub in 2004 to the largest LCC in Singapore today.” said Rosalynn Tay (For more information on recruitment, please see http://www.tigerairways.com/sg/en/careers.php ).

For the 12 months to June 2010, 5.3 million passengers chose Tiger Airways, an increase of 52% from the preceding 12 months. Load factor grew from 80% to 85% during the same period of comparison, as Tiger’s flights became even more popular.