Tiger Airways, the budget airline partly owned by Singapore Airlines, says from September 2009 to August 2010, a total of 5.5 million passengers chose to fly with the carrier, an increase of 47% over the 3.7 million passengers in the preceding 12 months. The average load factor for the 12-month period to August 2010 was 86%, an increase of 5 percentage points year-on-year.

The average load factor for the group increased by 5 percentage points to 86%, from 81% in August 2009. The total number of passengers in August 2010 grew 18% over last year to 442,000 compared to an 11% increase in capacity.