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“I am a big believer in putting the dead cat on the table and talking about it,” he tells The Weekend Australian. “Sometimes you just need to put that hard-nosed business hat on and make the tough calls.”
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Sharp won’t comment on numbers but it is understood Tigerair’s revenues rose in January compared with a year ago despite the Bali disruptions. Sharp makes the point that Tigerair’s Bali operations were only a small part of its overall business: five flights a day out of an average 80 flights the airline operates daily.
The Bali flights were less than 10 per cent of Tigerair’s total capacity and less than 7 per cent of its daily flights. And Sharp is not about to give up on the budget carrier’s international ambitions.
“We’ve identified several domestic and short-haul international growth opportunities, and we can redeploy the assets and systems we had in place for Bali flights to these opportunities. We can do this pretty seamlessly,” he says.