Tiger Airways to fly to India from October

Singapore, July 4: Singapore's low cost airline Tiger Airways will start flying to India from October 28, offering each ticket at 200 Singapore dollars, inclusive of taxes.

It will join Singapore Airlines and SilkAir as well as Indian carriers Air India, Indian, Jet Airways and Air Sahara, wooing for the growing number of Indian tourists to Singapore.

Tiger Airways has a permit from India to fly to six destinations and would start flying four times a week to Chennai from October 28 and three times to Kochi from October 30.

The nine-aircraft operator will also be flying to Kolkata, Goa, and Kozhikode.

The airlines began flying in 2004 and now flies from Singapore to 20 destinations in Southeast Asia and China as well as Perth and Darwin in Australia.

India is emerging as a major tourist market for Singapore, having seen 98,000 visitors in May this year, up by 21 per cent for the same month a year ago, and ahead of 85,000 visitors from China.

Tiger Airways' founding shareholders are Singapore Airlines Limited (49 per cent), Indigo Partners LLC, the investment firm founded by Bill Franke (24 per cent), Irelandia Investments Limited, the private investment arm of Tony Ryan and family (16 per cent) and Singapore's Temasek Holdings Pte Ltd (11 per cent).

UNI