Tiger Airways Grounded

[CBRFlyer]

As of 11pm Friday 01/07/11 CASA has grounded Tiger Airways Australia citing safety reasons.

The Civil Aviation Safety Authority has suspended the operations of Tiger Airways Australia Pty Ltd with immediate effect from Saturday 2 July 2011.This action has been taken because CASA believes permitting the airline to continue to fly poses a serious and imminent risk to air safety.
The suspension of Tiger Airways Australia follows the issue of a show cause notice to the airline in March 2011.
Taking Tiger Airways Australia's response to this show cause notice into account, CASA subsequently imposed a number of conditions on the airline's air operator's certificate.
These conditions required actions to improve the proficiency of Tiger Airways Australia's pilots, improvements to pilot training and checking processes, changes to fatigue management, improvements to maintenance control and ongoing airworthiness systems and ensuring appropriately qualified people fill management and operational positions.
CASA has been closely monitoring the operations of Tiger Airways Australia throughout 2011, with surveillance undertaken at a range of locations.
Since Tiger Airways Australia was served the show cause notice there have been further events raising concerns about the airline's ability to continue to conduct operations safely.
In the circumstances, CASA no longer has confidence in the ability of Tiger Airways Australia to satisfactorily address the safety issues that have been identified.
The suspension is in force immediately for an initial five working days, during which time CASA must apply to the Federal Court for an extension of the grounding.
If the Federal Court supports CASA's application the court can continue the suspension for a period of time which will allow CASA to finalise investigations into the safety matters.
CASA will provide additional information on Saturday 2 July 2011.
Media contact:Peter GibsonMobile: 0419 296 446
Ref: MR4511

Source: http://www.casa.gov.au/scripts/nc.dll?WCMS:STANDARD::pc=PC_100504


Both Qantas Group and Virgin Australia are offering rescue packages for stranded Tiger Airway passengers.

[CBRFlyer]

CASA should tomorrow get a court order to ground Tiger until August 1

[smitho]

I see that the ACCC is gunning for the Tiger also on grounds of misleading the punters by taking bookings for flights from this coming Sunday 11 July.

[CBRFlyer]

Yes...they were a bit cocky about the whole thing to start and seemed to treat it as a joke. However members on the Sydney Airport Message Board are now bringing news that Tiger themselves have cancelled all flights departing before Midnight August 1.
http://yssyforum.net/board/showthread.php?p=62639#post62639

[CBRFlyer]

The Civil Aviation Safety Authority has lifted the suspension of Tiger Airways Australia Pty Ltd, effective from Wednesday 10 August 2011.

This follows a thorough investigation by CASA into safety issues within Tiger Airways Australia.

As a result of the investigation and consistent with previous actions taken by CASA, a new set of conditions has been imposed on Tiger Airways Australia's air operator's certificate.

These conditions address key areas of operational importance within Tiger Airways and will underpin ongoing improvements in the airline's safety performance. To continue to operate Tiger must comply with the conditions while they are in place.

Areas the conditions cover include:

pilot training and proficiency
pilot rostering and fatigue management
currency and revision of operational manuals and related documents
improved change-management processes and the appointment of additional qualified personnel in key positions
amendments to the airline's safety management system
Tiger Airways Australia was required to demonstrate it had complied with the necessary safety requirements before it was permitted to resume operations.

These requirements included additional simulator and ground training for Tiger's pilots.

The number of sectors Tiger Airways may fly is initially limited to a maximum of 18 a day during August 2011. Increased operations after August will be subject to CASA approval.

CASA's Director of Aviation Safety, John McCormick, said Tiger had demonstrated to CASA it can comply with the conditions on its air operator's certificate and meet the necessary safety requirements.

"On that basis, CASA now believes allowing Tiger Airways Australia to resume operations is acceptable," Mr McCormick said.

"Tiger Airways has co-operated with CASA's investigation and is to be credited for a constructive approach.

"CASA will be closely monitoring the operations of Tiger Airways through scheduled surveillance and regular spot checks. We will also be meeting regularly with the airline to review ongoing safety performance and compliance with the conditions on the airline's operations."

CASA suspended the air operator's certificate of Tiger Airways Australia on 2 July 2011

CASA