Tiger Celebrates Returning to Hat Yai with S$10 Flights

Friday, 11 September 2009

* Three flights per week on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays from 3rd November 2009

* Celebratory fares from an incredibly low S$10 one way excluding taxes and charges

Tiger Airways will resume flights to Hat Yai from 3rd November 2009, almost two years since it suspended flights to this gateway city in southern Thailand.

Due to increasing feedback from customers asking for resumption of service to Thailand's third largest provincial capital, Tiger Airways will offer three flights a week on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. As part of the celebration of its return, the carrier is offering low fares for travel to Hat Yai, startingfrom S$10 one way excluding taxes and charges. Travellers can start booking on line now.

source: http://www.etravelblackboardasia.com/artic...64620&nav=2

I booked some Singapore - Hat Yai rtns on Friday....have a wedding in Hat Yai and was looking at a long trip either connect in Bangkok or drive from Phuket. I was waiting just thinking what I wanted to do and then low and behold they resume the flights. Saved me a fortune and tons of time!

Tiger also resumed the Singapore - Krabi flights also!!

Yep I heard of this.

Thanks God now my Singaporean customers wont be complaining of a 10 hours bus time.

. . . Thailand's third largest provincial capital . . .

Actually its largest provincial capital, according to the Ministry of the Interior (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Thailand_by_population). Quite an embarrassment, not to mention a dam_n nuisance, not to have any southbound flights out of Hatyai 'International' Airport for this past couple years.

But no quibbles. This is great news.

No quibbles about the news itself but as far as I know, the provincial capital of Songkhla province is Songkhla, not Hat Yai.

No quibbles about the news itself but as far as I know, the provincial capital of Songkhla province is Songkhla, not Hat Yai.

You are correct. From Wikipedia:

"Hat Yai (Thai: หาดใหญ่; also Haad Yai / Had Yai) is a city in southern Thailand near the boundary to Malaysia. Geographical location 7°1′N 100°28′E / 7.017°N 100.467°E / 7.017; 100.467. With a population of 157,359 (2008) in the core city and about 800,000 in the Greater Hat Yai. Hat Yai is the biggest city of Songkhla Province and the largest metropolitan area in Southern Thailand, and is thus often mistaken as being the capital of the province. However Songkhla is the capital and the center of administration and culture while Hat Yai is the business center. The two cities are considered as twin cities due to the close connection, accordingly, Hat Yai and Songkhla form the Greater Hatyai-Songkhla Metropolitan Area"

No quibbles about the news itself but as far as I know, the provincial capital of Songkhla province is Songkhla, not Hat Yai.

Ouch, I only lived in Songkhla for seven years and I still didn't catch that!

Anyhow I was a little surprised to see that Hatyai now officially rates as Thailand's biggest provincial city. Both Chiangmai and Khorat feel like bigger places to me, but perhaps that's just because Hatyai is home and seems more familiar.

Tiger also resumed the Singapore - Krabi flights also!!

Can't find any info about Tiger from Krabi to Singapore??? Seems there is no schedules for Krabi??

I want to use their fligt to Singapore if possible?

Tiger also resumed the Singapore - Krabi flights also!!

Can't find any info about Tiger from Krabi to Singapore??? Seems there is no schedules for Krabi??

I want to use their fligt to Singapore if possible?

It is on the Tiger Air website

They are resumming the Krabi flights from 25th October

Current offer $5 + $50 tax 1 way

Flight times are:

KBV - SIN dpt 15.20 arr 17.55

SIN - KBV dpt 14.10 arr 14.50

Not sure what days, but it is not every day, I think only 4 days a week.

yeah .. I got wifey on a return flight too! Hope its as good as they claim to be. Tiger should be a subsidary of SIA I think..

Fingers crossed

On a side note HappyAir are also offering a premium service between Hat Yai and Phuket. Means a 7 hours bus journey can now be a 40 min flight.

Cost one way is 2,300 Baht.

Read & watch reviews before you book.

tigerairways_reviews_links.doc

Read & watch reviews before you book.

tigerairways_reviews_links.doc

I have travelled on Tiger Air probably 50 or 60 times over the last 3 years and never had a single problem with them........

yeah i heard about all the last min flight cancellations too....

Fingers crossed.....!