Look, cards on the table here, when you willingly choose the budget airline carrier, you generally get what you pay for. It’s not an indictment on any particular company, mind you. It’s just that if you’re keen on revisiting a time when flying was a gentleperson’s pursuit, what with your pressed linen suits and your fine dresses and your champagne services and whatnot, then it’s probably in your best interests to fork out the extra cash.
But that said, as much as we love ourselves a cheap airfare, this map put out by Tiger Airways probably goes more than a long way to explaining a few minor foibles.
‘Course for all we know it could be scarily accurate. Cities might suddenly have become sentient and nomadic, with Adelaide drifting listlessly inland as it makes its attacking run at claiming land currently held by Canberra. Perth might be slowly, ever so slowly, making tracks northwards on some sort of walkabout of self-discovery. Gold Coast, sick of the heat and fed up with schoolies, seems to be making a path south to some cooler weather, whilst Coffs Harbour‘s esky is chock full of Guava Crusiers and is making a break for the Queensland border, where a mate’s mate’s cousin has made promises of some goey that’ll pull rebar out of set concrete.
And as for Hobart? They’ve flipped a table, gone “fuck this” and holed up on Flinders Island to await the inevitable collapse of society.
Again, it’s an airline named after a land-based mammal. You get what you pay for.
UPDATE:
Our friends at Tiger Australia have set the record straight;
“This refers to a map from Tigerair Singapore’s inflight magazine and not Tiger Australia.
Tigerair Australia is a different company to Tigerair Singapore. Tigerair Australia is now 100% owned by the Virgin Australia Group. We will contact Tigerair Singapore directly to update the information for moving forward.”
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