On 25th July, Scoot and Tigerair officially completed their integration and announced the launch of 5 new destinations, including their first destination in the United States. The 5 destinations are Harbin, Kuantan, Kuching, Palembang and Honolulu, its first stop in the United States.

The airline also unveiled a new cabin crew uniform on Tuesday (July 25), along with new livery on its first A320 aircraft.

SIA took Tigerair private last year as part of a larger plan to drive deeper cooperation and synergy between the group's different carriers in the face of mounting competition.

Scoot, via its official website, announced (25-Jul-2017) Scoot and Tigerair merged on 25-Jul-2017 and now operate under the Scoot brand. The combined carrier serves 60 destinations with a fleet of two A319, 21 A320, eight Boeing 787-8 and six 787-9 aircraft with 39 A320neos, two 787-8s and four 787-9s on order, according to OAG and the CAPA Fleet Database.

Will the combined Scoot be an effective competitor to DY and the AirAsia Group, both in the short haul Asian market and long haul markets to Europe and United States? Asian budget aviation is rapidly developing! Other than NokScoot, any other Scoot affiliates may be launched?

Sources:
https://centreforaviation.com/news/scoo ... ger-696210
http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/t ... nd-kuching

The fear of stepping on the toes of SQ long haul is resulting in HNL via Japan routes, which makes no sense at all. SIN Europe seems to be quietly disappearing from focus also with ATH frequencies slowly reducing.

Is the 787 the right aircraft for flights to China?

They started repainting the A320 fleet:


https://twitter.com/winglets747/status/ ... 390022656/

KarelXWB wrote:

They started repainting the A320 fleet:


https://twitter.com/winglets747/status/ ... 390022656/

Looks great

BestWestern wrote:

The fear of stepping on the toes of SQ long haul is resulting in HNL via Japan routes, which makes no sense at all.

It makes perfect sense. Japan-HNL is a huge market, and I doubt their dense 787s could make it to HNL nonstop.

Via Japan to HNL? Did they justreplicated the AirAsia route? And seems like both of them are using KIX in Japan too

I didn't think they had A320neos on order? I can't see it listed anywhere...

MrHMSH wrote:

I didn't think they had A320neos on order? I can't see it listed anywhere...

Tigerair ordered 37 A320neo aircraft + 13 options in 2014, and converted two A320ceo to A320neo in 2015, bringing total outstanding NEO orders to 39.

I wonder if Scoot will replace Silkair on Singapore to Palembang or in addition to. Right now, Silkair and Jetstar operate to Palembang 3 times a week each.

N757KW

n757kw wrote:

I wonder if Scoot will replace Silkair on Singapore to Palembang or in addition to. Right now, Silkair and Jetstar operate to Palembang 3 times a week each.

N757KW

Scoot is replacing MI on both KCH and PLM.

Maybe we will see the 320 back on more MI routes, please.

Just wonder di CI BOUGHT off Taiwan Tigerair, did Taiwan Tiger still cooperate with Scoot, would be a good feed if Taiwan Tiger be able to feed the HNL flights in Osaka? How is Athens performing? Any more Europe routes soon.

Would a third long hauler work out for SQ by transferring A330s to Silk?

They should just brand Silkair air as SQ Silk, drop the different livery, and integrate into SQ mainline.

B-HOP wrote:

Just wonder di CI BOUGHT off Taiwan Tigerair, did Taiwan Tiger still cooperate with Scoot, would be a good feed if Taiwan Tiger be able to feed the HNL flights in Osaka? How is Athens performing? Any more Europe routes soon.

TIgerair Taiwan is 100% owned by CI. They only have a licensing deal for the Tigerair name, uniform, and rest of the items.
CI already flies to HNL nonstop, I don't think they will allow customers to be stolen away by going through KIX.

Long haul to US would be difficult. Many full service airlines are doing cut throat pricing on trans-Pacific economy class. Scoot probably cannot undercut prices by a lot. And Singapore is not exactly well positioned geographically for US-Asia connection traffic.

SIN-KIX-HNL baffles me.

Saludos,
Alex

hayzel777 wrote:

B-HOP wrote:

Just wonder di CI BOUGHT off Taiwan Tigerair, did Taiwan Tiger still cooperate with Scoot, would be a good feed if Taiwan Tiger be able to feed the HNL flights in Osaka? How is Athens performing? Any more Europe routes soon.

TIgerair Taiwan is 100% owned by CI. They only have a licensing deal for the Tigerair name, uniform, and rest of the items.
CI already flies to HNL nonstop, I don't think they will allow customers to be stolen away by going through KIX.

Is VA still paying the same licensing fee for TigerAU? Seems little value now the brand has shrunk so much. How many Tiger franchises are there? And SCOOTs too?

raylee67 wrote:

Long haul to US would be difficult. Many full service airlines are doing cut throat pricing on trans-Pacific economy class. Scoot probably cannot undercut prices by a lot. And Singapore is not exactly well positioned geographically for US-Asia connection traffic.

Transpac is cut throat right now with low fares to LAX and SFO but HNL still remains a relatively expensive destination to visit from South East Asia compared to the others despite the shorter flight times. Looking forward to cheaper fares now with AirAsia's and Scoot's entry into the market

smi0006 wrote:

hayzel777 wrote:

B-HOP wrote:

Just wonder di CI BOUGHT off Taiwan Tigerair, did Taiwan Tiger still cooperate with Scoot, would be a good feed if Taiwan Tiger be able to feed the HNL flights in Osaka? How is Athens performing? Any more Europe routes soon.

TIgerair Taiwan is 100% owned by CI. They only have a licensing deal for the Tigerair name, uniform, and rest of the items.
CI already flies to HNL nonstop, I don't think they will allow customers to be stolen away by going through KIX.

Is VA still paying the same licensing fee for TigerAU? Seems little value now the brand has shrunk so much. How many Tiger franchises are there? And SCOOTs too?

Haven't heard that they have stopped paying the liscencing, but then I have no inside intel. A smart business would certainly question it when the core brand has just been retired. If they are still gonna be paying to use the brand they might as well brand the Aus operation Scoot. Tiger has a terrible reputation in Australia after its early delay prone operations, 2011 safety grounding and just when it seemed to be recovering the Bali debacle. Scoot his looked at quite favourably in Aus.

smi0006 wrote:

How many Tiger franchises are there? And SCOOTs too?

NokScoot
Tigerair Taiwan
Tigerair Australia

With Tiger gone no point in franchises being around.

a320fan wrote:

smi0006 wrote:

hayzel777 wrote:

TIgerair Taiwan is 100% owned by CI. They only have a licensing deal for the Tigerair name, uniform, and rest of the items.
CI already flies to HNL nonstop, I don't think they will allow customers to be stolen away by going through KIX.

Is VA still paying the same licensing fee for TigerAU? Seems little value now the brand has shrunk so much. How many Tiger franchises are there? And SCOOTs too?

Haven't heard that they have stopped paying the liscencing, but then I have no inside intel. A smart business would certainly question it when the core brand has just been retired. If they are still gonna be paying to use the brand they might as well brand the Aus operation Scoot. Tiger has a terrible reputation in Australia after its early delay prone operations, 2011 safety grounding and just when it seemed to be recovering the Bali debacle. Scoot his looked at quite favourably in Aus.

The franchise might be varied to now carry the Scoot branding.

Afterall, Scoot A320s are still flying Tigerair SG's routes and using their ICAO and IATA codes.