The Flying Tiger…
Posted on November 3rd, 2010 by TWS
Oh god. I had to fly Tiger the other day. Actually, I didn’t really have to. I chose to.
Why, I’m not quite sure. Well, for a start, the one-way fare was only $68 bucks. Less than the cost of a cab fare. So I thought I would do the right thing by the client and fly to SYD-MEL the cheapest way.
And let’s face it, the flight is only an hour and I have done this route more times than I care to remember. So what was the worst that could possibly happen? Right.
Tiger approach boarding their planes the same way I approach my parenting responsibilities on a Friday night when there’s a football game on TV. I basically say to the kids, “look, eat what you want, go to sleep when you want, just don’t annoy me for the next 3-hours”. Or something like that.
When you make the original booking online, Tiger make it clear that they can’t afford check-in staff (ie print your own boarding pass or cough up $20 if you want us to do it at the airport), don’t really want to pay some poor prick to throw your bags in the hold and even by their own admission – say that seats will be allocated whenever the hell the IT system in India come back from lunch and work out the bugs in the system.
