Tiger still waiting

Australian Low Cost Carrier Tiger Airways remains grounded with CASA now requiring changes to documentation to bring it up to standard.

CASA spokesman Peter Gibson said last night that the regulator had identified deficiencies in some of Tiger's documentation.
"These need to be addressed by Tiger and resubmitted for review before CASA can complete its assessment. This will necessarily take some more time," Mr Gibson said. "Progress is essentially dependent on Tiger providing complete, correct and up-to-date documentation to CASA."

CASA has now kept Tiger grounded since the beginning of July.

Read the full report from Steve Creedy of theaustralian.com.au HERE
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Tiger have also reported that their financial report for the year ending March 2011 will be significantly effected by both fuel prices and the grounding of the Australian operation

It said the Australian operations were likely to report a net loss for the financial year ending March.

Read more from news.airwise.com HERE