Why Would Any Human Still Wanna Take Tiger Airways?

[makapaaa]

Feb 25, 2010

Not a sterling start to the year for Tiger Airways

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<!-- end left side bar --><!-- story content : start -->LAST Friday, my daughter travelled to Perth on a Tiger Airways flight. Following a delay in departure from Singapore's Budget Terminal, she landed in Perth at 9.30pm. An announcement was then made that 41 pieces of luggage (one of which was my daughter's) were left behind in Singapore.
That was just the start of her problems.
After clearing immigration, passengers whose luggage was left behind were told to fill in forms and provide their combination lock numbers for Customs purposes. This caused another delay and my daughter got home only close to midnight.
She was eventually informed by Tiger Airways staff that it would take four to five days for her luggage to be delivered to her Perth address. Imagine the problems faced by passengers in transit or those who live hours away from the airport.
Eddy Koh

 

[DASHUANGXI]

hello Tiger to China very cheap

 

[RonRon]

It is worst in Europe like Germany, Greece, Spain and France etc. The airports are empty, nobody working. No food and drinks and no one attend to the tourists. The tourists can't even know when they can get a flight out of those countries

 

[Watchman]

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Watch this video clip before you sleep and before you go to work !
-PAP

 

[Sperminator]

It is worst in Europe like Germany, Greece, Spain and France etc. The airports are empty, nobody working. No food and drinks and no one attend to the tourists. The tourists can't even know when they can get a flight out of those countries

Dear RonRon,

May I confirm with you that this is a visual confirmation on your part?

Is Europe really in such a situation now?

Specifically on the AIRPORTS are EMPTY, nobody working.

What are the reasons of the AIRPORTS EMPTY, and nobody working?

Care to share with me your views please?

Thanks in advance.

 

[RonRon]

Dear RonRon,

May I confirm with you that this is a visual confirmation on your part?

Is Europe really in such a situation now?

Specifically on the AIRPORTS are EMPTY, nobody working.

What are the reasons of the AIRPORTS EMPTY, and nobody working?

Care to share with me your views please?

Thanks in advance.

I lazy to type..

Europe flight chaos looms as Lufthansa pilots to strike
February 18, 2010
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Pilots at Germany's Lufthansa worried about their jobs voted yesterday to stage their biggest strike since 2001, adding to turbulence in a European industry already under pressure from all sides.

More than 93 per cent of the 4500 pilots at the airline, one of Europe's "big three" with Air France-KLM and British Airways, opted to stage four days of industrial action starting at midnight on Monday (local time).

"All 4000 pilots working on those days are called upon to strike," union official Ilona Ritter said.

"Lufthansa management bears all the responsibility for this dispute."

Talks collapsed in acrimony in December, with the Cockpit union demanding a 6.4-per cent pay increase and commitments that pilots would keep their jobs as the firm shifts passengers to cheaper foreign affiliates.

The airline said that the union was also making a demand for greater say on management decisions, which "cannot be accepted."

"The union's call for strike action, despite numerous proposals on job security put forward by Lufthansa is entirely inappropriate," it said.

"Lufthansa will go to every length to minimise the impact of a stoppage on customers and passengers."

The strikes will also affect Lufthansa Cargo, one of the world's biggest freight carriers, and Germanwings.

The firm, which operated around 800,000 flights last year, said it has set up a hotline and is allowing customers to change bookings free of charge, or to give them train tickets.

European airlines have been fighting for survival for several years as they battle with the triple whammy of budget airlines poaching customers with low prices, soaring high fuel costs and the worst global recession in decades.

In response, they have sought to consolidate, as seen in Air France's mega-merger with Dutch KLM and BA's tie-up with Iberia, and by attempting to cut costs wherever they can, including by slashing jobs and levels of service.

BA is currently slashing almost 5000 jobs and has scrapped all free meals except breakfast on short-haul flights, Air France-KLM is cutting 2700 staff and Lufthansa is cutting overheads by a billion euros.

The airlines' pain is refusing to go away, however, with Air France-KLM last week reporting its fifth straight quarterly net loss and warning of more red ink as cash-strapped consumers stay away in droves.

British Airways only narrowly managed to avoid what would have been a devastating 12-day stoppage by cabin crew over the recent Christmas and New Year period, and more industrial action is in the pipeline.

Lufthansa itself saw sales slump over 13 per cent in the first nine months of 2009, the last figures available, with operating income sliding 76 per cent and warning a positive full year result was subject to "very considerable risks."

Lufthansa, which employs around 100,000 people, was hit nine years ago by the worst strike in its history that caused travel misery for passengers and cost the firm millions of euros.

"It's going to be around the same scale this time," the Rhein-ische Post cited an official at Cockpit as saying.

"Small warning strikes are insufficient. The differences are too fundamental this time."

AFP

 

[Ramseth]

It is worst in Europe like Germany, Greece, Spain and France etc. The airports are empty, nobody working. No food and drinks and no one attend to the tourists. The tourists can't even know when they can get a flight out of those countries

You're probably unlucky enough to check into the airport when there's a strike on.

 

[RonRon]

Travellers in Europe faced more misery on Tuesday as French air traffic controllers launched a five-day strike and British and German airlines sought to head off threats of industrial action.

A quarter of flights from Paris Charles de Gaulle, a major international hub, were cancelled, along with around half out of Paris Orly, which mainly serves domestic routes and the French overseas territories.

Queues were building up at Orly, but most passengers were resigned as 17 flights flashed up "cancelled" on information screens. Air France has vowed to maintain most long-haul services during the strike.

Four French unions have called the strike in order to protest against the planned merger of the Belgian, Dutch, French, German, Luxembourg and Swiss air traffic control networks.

French controllers fear the merger will end their protected role as French state employees, but the French aviation authority DGAC has insisted that its status will not be changed.

France's national audit office gave a severe assessment of the air traffic control sector last month. It estimated controllers get 30 weeks' holiday a year, winning generous allowances because bosses fear disputes with them.

Beyond France, more widespread chaos was prevented, or at least postponed, late Monday, when German flag-carrier Lufthansa persuaded pilots to return to negotiations after only one day of a planned four-day stoppage.

Meanwhile, British Airways faced the threat of a crippling protest after cabin crew voted by more than 80 percent in favour of new strike action, the fruit of a long-running and bitter dispute over working conditions.

British Airways, which has forecast a record loss in its current financial year, says it wants to review the working conditions of its cabin crew, who are paid more than their counterparts at other airlines.

The cabin crews' union, Unite, is angry at plans to use fewer crew on flights, freeze pay and apply different working conditions to new staff.

"We will not allow Unite to ruin this company," the airline warned, in a statement. "Should a strike take place, we will do everything we can to protect our customers' travel plans."

Lufthansa, Europe's biggest airline in terms of passenger numbers, said Tuesday it hoped to get services running normally by the end of the week as talks with unions got under way.

The firm agreed late on Monday to hold negotiations with the pilots' union Cockpit, ending a strike that was expected to last four days and cost the firm up to 100 million euros (136 million dollars).

"Our goal is to have the network running at 100 percent by Friday at the latest," airline spokesman Klaus Walther told ZDF television.

The union is pressing for a 6.4-percent pay raise but its main demand is that pilots not lose their jobs when Lufthansa begins to operate more flights using cheaper foreign affiliates.

Lufthansa 'optimistic' over talks

Lufthansa, which normally offers 1,800 flights daily, had scrubbed 800 as a preventive measure ahead of the strike. This special schedule was also in force on Tuesday.

European airlines have been fighting for survival as they battle with the low-cost airlines poaching customers, soaring fuel costs and the worst global recession in decades.

The French strike also prompted flight cancellations in Geneva and in Belgium at Brussels airport with delays at nearby Charleroi, air authorities said. Some French provincial airports were closed.

"I was supposed to leave at 8:20 am for Barcelona but my flight is cancelled," said Bruno Lacroix, 49, who turned up early at Orly only to be told to come back and get a flight in the evening.

"I'm crossing my fingers but I have no guarantee for the return flight on Friday."

 

[Ramseth]

Imagine a terrorist trying to check in to hijack a plane only to be faced with a strike. Best defence against terror!

 

[Sperminator]

hello Tiger to China very cheap

Hey, I agree with you.

It now cost around SGD 285 for a round trip from SGP--> SZX --> SGP

but must book 1 month in advance okay?

By the way, I have a word for the public.

When you are paying such low pricing, you have to consider the following;

1. In SINGAPORE, you got to go BUDGET TERMINAL (not much shops to do shopping, anyways, see the term BUDGET) Not too bad if your sole intention is treating this as solely for transportation purposes only.

2. When you are overseas or SGP, you may have to take a bus from the embarking gates to your flight... (the reason is that your money would not be paying for the better embarking gates which are closer.... the further away, the cheaper the tickets)

3. Your cheap ticketing would not be paying for the FOOD & DRINKS, usually packaged, but you would have to pay by credit card or SGD to buy the food or drinks, or entertainment.

4. The seats are crampped, however, reason is because it's budget, and they have to ensure the flights could pack as much people as possible for staying afloat.

5. You don't get 1st class service, because you are paying for a 3rd class service. So this have to be at peace with yourself.

6. If the service and inconvenience probability is high, get yourself insured with travel insurance.... travel insurance do pay for flight delays of up to 8 or more hours, if not mistaken, and also if baggage is not delivered, insurance company can pay up to a few hundred SGP dollars for the inconvenience caused.... don't expect TIGER budget to buy these for you... because it's a budget, there would not be any form of compensation.

So, I hope people do clarify with their own thinking....

(It's like this metaphor, it doesn't mean that we should not take flights anymore, when there were some CRASH before....) Most importantly I believe, for any flight to be classified as good, as long as it's safe, it'll be fine for me.... you can be in the first class seats, and if the plane (touch wood) crash, it's not going to be okay...

In summary, as long as the flight is safe, reasonable in pricing, I really don't mind... however, knowing that there may be flight delays or baggage delays, getting yourself insured may not be a bad deal (funny thing is that when you buy insurance, you would almost have no chance of claiming it)

 

[oli9]

Atcually the worst part about Tiger is that its being run by a DIPLOMA HOLDER Brit. Spore got no scholars man enough to run this sinking airline meh?