Suspension Of Certificate To Continue While Case Remains Unresolved

A scheduled Federal Court directions hearing on the Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority's (CASA) application to continue the suspension of Tiger Airways Australia Pty Ltd has been adjourned for a fifth time. A directions hearing was held on Friday, which was adjourned with no resolution of the matter until Thursday, August 11th 2011. The suspension continues while the matter is adjourned.

CASA applied to the Federal Court on July 7, 2011 to continue the suspension of Tiger Airways. This was to allow the completion of investigations into serious safety issues identified within Tiger Airways' operations. CASA's investigations have been completed and a set of proposed conditions to be imposed on Tiger Airway’s air operator's certificate have been served on the airline.

A number of conditions must be met before CASA can be satisfied it is safe to allow Tiger Airways to resume operations. Tiger Airways has been progressively providing CASA with the evidence necessary to demonstrate how it will meet the conditions. CASA is assessing this documentation as it is provided by Tiger Airways.

CASA has identified deficiencies in some of the documentation provided by Tiger Airways. Tiger has resubmitted some documentation and CASA is awaiting receipt of other documentation and information before it can complete its assessment. CASA says this will necessarily take some more time. Progress is essentially dependent on Tiger providing complete, correct and up-to-date documentation to CASA.

CASA is working to finalize these matters as quickly as possible, while ensuring all safety requirements are met.

FMI: www.casa.gov.au