Tiger Airways
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Tiger Airways Singapore Pte Ltd, operating as Tigerair, was a low-cost airline headquartered in Singapore. It operated services to regional destinations in Southeast Asia, Bangladesh, Taiwan, China and India from its main base at Singapore Changi Airport. It was founded as an independent airline in 2003, and was listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange under the Tiger Airways Holdings name in 2010. In October 2014, parent company Tiger Airways Holdings became a subsidiary of the SIA Group, who took a 56% ownership stake.
Key facts
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- Tiger Airways Singapore Pte Ltd
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- 200
- Airline.IATA
- TR
- Airline.ICAO
- TGW
- Airline.callsign
- GO CAT
- Airline.ceased
- (merged into Scoot)
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- Singapore
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- Lee Lik Hsin (CEO)
- Airline.bases
- Changi Airport
- Airline.frequent_flyer
- KrisFlyer
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Encyclopedic overview
16 sectionsContents
- History
- Establishment
- Route strategy
- Merging with Scoot
- Destinations
- Codeshare agreements
- Corporate management
- Business trends
- Fleet
- In-flight
- Seating
- Food and beverage
- Entertainment
- See also
- References
- External links
Tiger Airways Singapore Pte Ltd, operating as Tigerair, was a low-cost airline headquartered in Singapore. It operated services to regional destinations in Southeast Asia, Bangladesh, Taiwan, China and India from its main base at Singapore Changi Airport. It was founded as an independent airline in 2003, and was listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange under the Tiger Airways Holdings name in 2010. In October 2014, parent company Tiger Airways Holdings became a subsidiary of the SIA Group, who took a 56% ownership stake.
On 18 May 2016, Singapore Airlines established Budget Aviation Holdings, a holding company to own and manage its budget airlines Scoot and Tiger Airways following the delisting of Tiger Airways from the Singapore Stock Exchange in response to the complete takeover of Tigerair by Singapore Airlines. Tigerair merged with Scoot on 25 July 2017, retaining its air operator's certificate while operating under the Scoot brand.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tiger Airways” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.