Parent company Virgin Australia shuts down the low-cost carrier, which had been in trouble before the pandemic hit and gutted domestic and international tourism markets.
Virgin Australia said it would retain the air operator certificate so it could revive a low-cost carrier when the domestic holiday travel market fully recovered.
At the time Virgin Australia chief executive Paul Scurrah said the airline had to shrink to survive the COVID-19 pandemic. Mr Scurrah estimated it could take more than three years for demand domestic and short-haul international flights to return to previous levels.Tigerair has flown more than 30 million customers since its first flight in 2007.
Five domestic routes were axed in February, after Virgin Australia confirmed it had lost almost $100 million during the previous six months.Mr Scurrah said cancelling the services was not an easy decision, but it had to be done to keep the business profitable.Since then more than 30 million customers had used the airline.
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