AUSTRALIA. HDS Retail Asia Pacific has opened two NewsLink stores within the Tiger Terminals of Melbourne and Gold Coast airports.
Tiger Airways, a new airline within the Australian market, caters primarily to the leisure traveller. It flies domestic routes using nine airports – Melbourne, Adelaide, Alice Springs, Canberra, Gold Coast, Hobart, Mackay, Newcastle and Rockhampton.
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HDS Retail will offer a diverse range of reading and stationery items as well as convenience products for the growing band of Tiger travellers | |
NewsLink offers a wide range of reading materials, stationery products and essential convenience items for travellers. It has over 50 stores across the Asia Pacific region and is part of the HDS Retail Asia Pacific network, which itself embraces more than 100 stores within Australia, Singapore, China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
HDS Retail Asia Pacific General Manager (Australia) Luc Mansion said: “We are excited by the further opportunity to work with Australia Pacific Airports (Melbourne) and Gold Coast Airport Limited with the opening of these two new stores.”
ABOUT TIGER AIRWAYS
Tiger Airways is one of Asia Pacific’s pioneering low-fare airlines. It took to the skies from Singapore in September 2004 with two aircraft and three routes in its network. Within three years Tiger Airways now flies to more than 25 destinations across eight Asia Pacific countries using a fleet of brand-new Airbus A320 aircraft.
The Tiger Aviation Group’s shareholders are Singapore Airlines Limited (49%); Indigo Partners LLC, the investment firm founded by Bill Franke (24%); Irelandia Investments Limited, the private investment arm of Tony Ryan and family (16%); and Temasek Holdings Pte Ltd (11%). The Tiger Aviation Group consists of Tiger Airways Singapore and Tiger Airways Australia, both 100% owned by the Tiger Aviation Pte Limited.
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