Tiger’s terminal struggle
Tiger Airways’ future remained on a knife’s edge today after the company’s top brass attempted to persuade safety authorities that its operation is fit to fly.
Tiger Airways Australia, a subsidiary of Singapore’s Tiger Airways, was grounded for five working days on Saturday by Australia’s Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) for posing a “serious and imminent risk to air safety”. 


It is the first grounding of an entire fleet in Australian aviation history and Tiger group president and chief executive Tony Davis has been given the responsibility of getting planes back in the air. 


In a statement to the Singapore Stock Exchange, Tiger said Davis had been instructed to focus on “assisting Tiger Airways Australia to resume operations as soon as possibleâ€. Davis and Tiger executives met CASA yesterday.
CASA’s Peter Gibson says the airline has been cooperative and the meeting was helpful.
“Certainly Tiger were very open during the meeting. There were very good discussions about a range of issues,” he said.
“Tiger brought to the table a number of senior people and we had about two-and-half hours of discussion.
“But this was just another step in the detailed process of working through all the issues – investigating the recent incidents and determining a position on how we can move forward with Tiger.”
Ian Jarrett
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