Tiger Airways to Compete with SilkAir to Davao

Low-cost carrier Tiger Airways is to compete with SilkAir on flights between Singapore and the Filipino city of Davao, the largest city on the island of Mindanao and one of the busiest cargo hubs in the country. The budget carrier, which is partly owned by Singapore Airlines (SIA), is to start a three times weekly flight from November 1, adding to the three flights per week currently offered by SilkAir, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SIA.

Tiger Airways has made a big impression since it was established in December 2003 and now accounts for a 7.4 per cent share of the capacity (weekly seats) and a similar 7.4 per cent of the traffic (estimated O&D passengers) from Singapore Changi Airport. It currently offers scheduled flights to almost 20 destinations and competes directly with SilkAir to seven existing destinations – Chennai, Kuala Lumpur, Kuching, Penang, Phuket, Shenzhen and Thiruvananthapuram.

In the past year an estimated 19,000 O&D passengers traveled between Singapore and Davao, up 21.4 per cent on the previous 12 months. Around 38 per cent of these passengers made use of the direct SilkAir service, but around 44 per cent flew with Cebu Pacific Airways via Manila and Cebu, a routing where average fares were more than half those offered by SilkAir.

Schedule:

TR2792 SIN1450 – 1845DVO 320 4
TR2792 SIN1500 – 1845DVO 320 2
TR2792 SIN1645 – 2035DVO 320 7
TR2793 DVO1945 – 2340SIN 320 24
TR2793 DVO2105 – 0045+1SIN 320 7